Kenmare is a town the road passes through or near, and in October of 1645 it was where a significant arrival took place. On the 11th of that month, the Papal Nuncio disembarked in the Bay of Killmair. His voyage had been perilous. A Parliamentary frigate nearly captured his ship, and he was saved only when the frigate's chimney caught fire, forcing it to lie to. The Nuncio was Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Archbishop of Fermo, sent by Innocent the Tenth. He was to exercise a great influence on Irish history. The book describes him as a man cast in the iron mould of bigotry, austere in morals and doctrine, narrow in his views, and singularly forcible in a society where the atmosphere was one of compromise. His lifelong ambition was restoring Ireland to the obedience of the Holy See. He did not lack the graces of eloquence and learning, and he was free from avarice. The author notes that he was not tainted with the corruption that has sometimes beset eminent ecclesiastics. But he treated any resistance to his decrees as rank sacrilege. Regarding himself as the representative of God's Vicegerent, he never disentangled his individual from his ghostly personality. The suggestion of an affront added intensity to his resentment and gave the aspect of a moral obligation to what the author calls purely egotistic rancour. On the 12th of November, a month after landing, he made a triumphal entry into Kilkenny.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of James, first duke of Ormonde, 1610-1688; (vol. 1) (1912), Burghclere, Winifred Anne Henrietta Christina Herbert Gardner, Baroness, 1864-1933, Internet Archive lifeofjamesfirst01burg, Chapter 48 · source

Close to Kenmare, there was once an old entrance into the county of Kerry. Kerry was called the kingdom of Kerry in old times. The road coming in from Cork passes through a tunnel cut through the rock, about 200 yards long, with two shorter tunnels nearby. The road down toward Kenmare Harbour is smooth and well kept, and counted among the best roads in the kingdom. It was not always so. At one period this road was proverbial for the poverty of the land and the wretchedness of its people. A saying went that a Kerry cow never looks up at a passing stranger, for fear it would lose the bite. Long ago, at stated seasons, the agents of the lord of the land stationed themselves at the old entrance into the county. They waited there to meet the beggars as they were returning homewards from Cork to Kerry. The beggars had gone out collecting half-pence, and the agents took those half-pence from them. That was how the rents of their cabins were paid. The agents received the rents by taking from the beggars the coins they had gathered. So the poor who had gone out begging came home and handed over what they had collected, and that settled what they owed for their cabins.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 38 · source

This is a children's burial ground in rough pasture on a north-west-facing slope overlooking the estuary of the Finnihy River. It measures about 50 metres north-west to south-east and about 40 metres south-west to north-east. A drystone wall encloses it on the south-west side, with traces of a curving earthen bank running south-west to north-east. Elsewhere the ground itself marks the boundary, uneven and overgrown. Graves are marked by low uninscribed headstones, usually with footstones beside them. Several low unmarked mounds were also noted. In the north-west half, the ground slopes steeply down to the riverbank, and coniferous trees shade the graves there. The rest is densely overgrown with bushes and ferns. The 1846 OS map names it Killeen Burial Ground, showing it as a rectangular area enclosed by a field boundary on one side and a broken line on the other three, the north-west side curving slightly.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE093-031---- · source

Close to Dinish Island, you have what the boatmen call Dinish Island, though its proper name is Dine-iske, meaning 'the beginning of the waters.' There's a rustic cottage built for visitors among arbutus groves, and a spot known as O'Sullivan's Punch Bowl. A bridge leads over to Brickeen Island, and across another bridge you can enter Muckross demesne, visit the lakelet of Doolah and see the old copper mines.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 57 · source

A children's burial ground, Feoramore. It stands in pasture on uneven ground on the south shore of Kenmare Bay. An oblong area, 20 metres east to west and 14 metres north to south, defined by an earth and gravel bank on the shore side and a drystone field wall on the south. The east and west sides are open. Low uninscribed grave-markers are visible inside, some fallen and obscured by overgrowth. Trees grow within. According to local information, Mass was celebrated there in 1999.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE101-003---- · source

Coming up along here are the Cloonee Loughs. Upper and lower Clonee and Lough Inchiquin are united by small but rapid rivers, and they contain islands gracefully wooded. Huge mountains look down upon them. At the extremity is a rich tract of alluvial soil, where there is a farmhouse, lived in by a "strong" farmer, who is ever willing to assist the angler. He will lend his boats, lend his flies, and lend, in the Irish way, his bacon, his potatoes, and his whisky. There is no water in Kerry more full of fish. Salmon in their season, white trout generally, brown trout always. The place is little known and seldom trodden. Fair fishing is free, or at least only taxed by the duty of a message to the agent of the Marquis of Lansdowne, to whom the property belongs. But if the angler throw his fly all day without "a rise," the day will not have been ill-spent if he look about him. From all the hill-sides pour contributory streams. "And rushing from their native hills, The voices of a thousand rills Come shouting down the mountain sides." The road to these lakes has its own attractions. The mountains on one side, the bay on the other, and midway in the bay is Dinish Island with its ruined church. A rugged hill by-road leads along a wild valley to reach them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 100 · source

Somewhere around here stands Ardea Castle, a ruin on a promontory overlooking the sea. It was once the strong fortress of the O'Sullivan More. The cliffs of shale and sand beneath it are gradually being washed away, and tradition has it that when this old castle disappears, the lakes of Killarney will be no more. The castle sits about two miles beyond the Cloonee loughs, which appear on the left as you come along the main road. The ruin looks out over the sea to the right. Beyond Ardea, the road leads on to Kilmacilloge Harbour and the long valley of Glenmore. All this is classic ground, connected with the name of Froude and the book he wrote in this locality, called the "Two Chiefs of Dunboy." People visiting this romantic region should not fail to read it, which gives so truly the atmosphere of Kerry, even if the accuracy of its details is not all that might be desired. Near here also is Derreen, the home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, who has succeeded in creating a place as near an earthly paradise as is possible. A visitor permitted to see the grounds of Derreen will be astonished at the number and variety of the sub-tropical plants which grow and flourish in this favoured spot. As it is private ground, and not available for everyone, it seems unnecessary to give any lengthened description of it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 55 · source

Garranes is a children's burial ground in Kerry, set within a possible rath. A rectangular area, fourteen metres north to south and nine metres east to west, appears as a burial ground on the 1846 OS map. Stone wall courses survive on the south and west, a low bank on the north, and a stone-faced scarp on the east. The interior slopes down to the east, and graves are marked with plain stone slabs laid north to south, none of them inscribed. Dennehy, writing in 1997, recorded the place as a ceallúnach, a children's burial ground, and noted veins of quartz running through the sandstone markers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE109-008002- · source

A children's burial ground at Collorus. It lies in undulating pasture on a north-facing slope overlooking Ardgroom Harbour. The ground is roughly triangular, narrowing northward, uneven and partly covered with ferns. No grave-markers or mounds were found, apart from one flat embedded stone near the centre. Locally it is known as a cillíneach.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE108-011---- · source

You are coming through Ardgroom now. This is one of three spots where a traveller can find a boat to cross Kenmare Bay. The others are Colleras and Ballycrovane, and together the book calls them charming bays in miniature that afford shelter from all winds. From any of them you can be conveyed across to Sneem Harbour on the opposite shore, where there is a convenient country inn. The inn-keeper there has a horse and car ready, or a boat if you wish to make excursions seaward or visit the opposite side of the bay. The writer notes, though, that it is a question whether the northern side, the side you are on, may not hold scenery as wonderful and beautiful as anything across the water. The tourist travelling this northern road is on the way round the coast.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 101 · source

This is a children's burial ground, or cillin, just south of the village of Eyeries in Cork. It appears on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map marked as a burial ground, though not on earlier editions. The ground is a sub-rectangular patch of rough grazing with a rock outcrop at its highest point, fenced and kept by the local community. Plain stone grave markers stand across it, and near the entrance there is a single cross-inscribed stone.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO101-012---- · source

This is the former Garda station at Eyeries, built about 1930. It is a detached single-storey building with five bays and gabled end bays to north and south. Today it is a private house. The roofs are hipped and pitched, with rendered chimneystacks and broken bed pediments on the gabled bays. The walls are painted roughcast render with a smooth rendered platband and a red brick string course. The central block has square-headed tripartite openings with timber sliding sash windows, concrete sills and raised rendered surrounds. The gabled bays have six-over-six sash windows with blind arches above. The doors are timber panelled and battened, with overlights. It stands in a prominent position in the streetscape, and the variety of window openings and the classical broken pediments are interesting features of a carefully considered design. It retains many original materials, including the timber sash windows and that red brick string course.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20911406 · source

This is the burial ground at Coulagh. It stands in pasture, an L-shaped ground enclosed by a field fence to the west and north and a stone-faced earthen bank to the east and south. Many grave markers have been noted within it. The record also flags a possible church site in the interior.

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Caherkeen burial ground sits on a south-east-facing slope in rough grazing, with a view down over the valley. A semicircular area projects east from a stone wall, enclosed by a low bank. The interior is divided in half by another wall, and the ruins of a small church stand against its north side. Across the church floor and the south half, low uninscribed stones mark the graves.

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Caherkeen mass-rock stands on the rocky lower slopes of Knocknagallaun, commanding a view north over the Kenmare River. A natural table of rock served as the altar where mass was said in penal times. A limestone cross was erected behind it about 1975, with a slab reading "mass rock penal times." A natural cave 250 metres west was a hiding place for priests.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO114-053---- · source

This is a children's burial ground in Reentrusk, in pasture close to the seashore on an east-facing slope overlooking Coulagh Bay. A roughly triangular area, about 8 metres across, is enclosed by an earth and stone bank on two sides and a low scarp elsewhere. Known locally as a 'cillíneach', it contains a small number of uninscribed upright stone grave-markers. An enclosure lies about 20 metres to the south-east.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO114-066001- · source

Reentrusk children's burial ground stands in a church known locally as Teampull na Dithreabhaigh. Low uninscribed grave-markers fill the entire interior. The place is called a cillíneach, a children's burial ground.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO114-021003- · source

Somewhere close to Allihies, copper was worked in the Berehaven mines, here and in the vicinity. Lead was found in that same neighbourhood. The record says these mines are important and productive, and that they deserve to be mentioned first among the metals of County Cork. The metals found across the county that could be put to economic use were copper, lead, silver-bearing and otherwise, manganese and iron. Copper turns up near Glengariff, near Bantry, and in different places out towards Sheep's Head, where green carbonate of copper or malachite was found. It appears near Dunmanway on the north-west side, in several places about Ballydehob and about Schull, not only on the mainland but on the islands, with green carbonate. There is copper about Crookhaven with silver-bearing lead, near Three Castle Head, near Castletownsend with lead and antimony, near Rosscarbery with manganese, and near Clonakilty with lead. Copper is also found near Rathpeacon, two or three miles north-west of Cork, where traces of green carbonate were found, at Knockadoon Head near Youghal, and near Millstreet. Lead occurs at many other places: at White Ball Head, near Bantry in a different locality, sometimes argentiferous, near Leap with iron, near Minane, at Ringabella Bay where it is argentiferous, near Carrigaline, near Carrigtohill, on the coast just opposite Youghal, and near Cary's Ville about three miles eastward of Fermoy. Iron seems to have been extensively worked in former times at Coomhola near Bantry Bay, at Aghadown near Roaring Water Bay, and at several other places on the coast, at Dundaniel on the Bandon River, at Araglin about eight miles north-east of Fermoy, at Tallow, and elsewhere. The works were abandoned when the natural woods that supplied the fuel were used up. The metal, being smelted with wood, was of excellent quality, esteemed equal to Swedish iron.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 359 · source

Ballydonegan burial ground is a raised circular area in pasture, enclosed by a stone-faced earthen bank with a shallow fosse to the south. Many grave markers have been noted within it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO127-004002- · source

As you pass through the parish of Kilnamanagh, you are near the small chapel where the body of Garrett, the sixteenth Earl of Desmond, was buried in 1583. After he was killed at Glanageenty, his body lay concealed beneath an old tree until it was carried here for interment. His head was impaled on London Bridge. The great house of Desmond fell with him. He left a son, James, called the Parliamentary Earl, and a nephew, James Fitz-Thomas, called the Sugan Earl, but Garrett may be styled the last.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 1) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc01gibsiala, Chapter 120 · source

Killough East is a wedge tomb near the head of a little valley that opens to the sea, on the south side of the Beara peninsula. Its ruined chamber, aligned north-east to south-west, is marked by two sidestones under a single roofstone, with two large slabs resting against the west end and slight traces of a mound.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO127-003---- · source

Not named on the 1842 map, this burial ground sits inside a ringfort at Killough West in Cork. Three burials and some grave markers were noted within its interior. Nothing more is recorded.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO127-007001- · source

A burial ground, Kilkinnikin East, on a south-facing slope in tillage ground. It is an irregular area, roughly 9.7 metres north to south and 9.4 metres east to west. Locally it is known as a famine burial ground, and grave markers define it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO127-010---- · source

Built about 1740, Dunboy Castle stands at Dunboy in Cork, outside Castletownbere, set near the ruins of an earlier tower house built about 1590 and destroyed in 1602. Henry and John Puxley built a house on this site in 1739, adjacent to those ruins. Through the 1700s and 1800s it was the most powerful house on the peninsula. In the 1860s the house was extensively rebuilt and remodelled for Henry Lavallin-Puxley, a descendant of Henry and John Puxley, by architect John Christopher. The work incorporated fabric of the earlier building. The entrance front had a 3-storey advanced central tower with a dormer, flanked by recessed bays, with a 3-storey canted bay to the south and a projecting chimneystack flanked by lancet openings to the north. A 5-stage tower stood to the north and rear of the main block. The walls were ashlar granite with marble arches and decorations. The roofs were pitched and conical slate with coursed limestone chimneystacks, parapets, and finials. Openings had marble chamfered mullions and transoms, with paired pointed arch openings and marble columns on the first floor of the main block. The tower house openings had label mouldings. A pointed arch door opening had recessed double-leaf timber battened doors with stepped voussoirs to the front. The building was burnt during the Troubles in 1921 and rebuilt in 2008. A 3-stage tower house to the west, built about 1590 and destroyed in 1602, was also rebuilt in 2008. It is now in use as a hotel.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20912801 · source

Curradonohoe holy well is a group of possibly four holy wells in the area known as Glebe, west of Castletownbere. They sit on the southern edge of a ridge of exposed bedrock, now heavily overgrown, about 8 metres east of the graveyard surrounding the ruins of Kilaconenagh church. Three large circular hollows, probably natural in origin, lie close together, with a possible fourth about 1 metre higher up the bedrock. The western well has a diameter of 0.5 metres and a depth of 0.3 metres. The second, 0.6 metres to the east, measures 0.8 by 1.1 metres across and 0.4 metres deep. The third, another 0.9 metres east, is 0.9 by 1.2 metres across and 0.2 metres deep. There is no evidence they are still visited regularly, but they are known locally as the Holy Wells.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO115-160---- · source

Bearhaven is a bay the road passes through. In 1531, an English ship took a Spanish vessel fishing near the Durseys. Dermot O'Sullivan, prince of Bear and Bantry, had notice of it. He manned out a small squadron of ships and brought both the Englishman and the Spanish vessel into Bearhaven. He hanged the English captain and set the Spaniard at liberty. O'Sullivan told the story afterwards with great ostentation.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 59 · source

Coming up through Castletownbere, in Bearehaven, where in 1754 Morty Oge O'Sullivan shot Mr. Puxley of Dunboy. A military party was dispatched from Cork to apprehend him. O'Sullivan had fortified his house and defended it until his ammunition was exhausted. He broke through his enemies, but was shot through the heart clearing a hedge.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 269 · source

Castletown Bearhaven is a small town you are passing through, with a haven formed by Bear Island that is strongly fortified. There have been proposals to make it a Transatlantic port, rivaling Queenstown once proposed lines to Bantry and Kenmare are constructed. At the seaward entry of the haven stand the ruins of Dunboy Castle, which gave the late Mr. J. A. Froude a title and material for his novel, The Two Chiefs of Dunboy.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 85 · source

Derrymihin West burial ground is a circular enclosure, its interior used as a burial ground associated with University College Cork. The main concentration of grave markers lies to the east. The record gives no further detail of dates, names, or events.

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Felane West children's burial ground is a roughly rectangular area on an east to west ridge in Berehaven Golf Course, in pasture. It measures about 10 metres north to south and 8 metres east to west. Locally it is called a cillíneach, a children's burial ground. It contains uninscribed grave-markers generally orientated north to south, with quartz stones scattered intermittently throughout. A holly tree stands in the centre. The ground is kept clear of overgrowth by golf club personnel. Tall slabs, recently erected, mark the perimeter at intervals, and a modern cross-inscribed plaque reads "An Cillineach RIP".

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO115-151---- · source

Close to Curragh, somewhere around here, a castle once stood about a mile from Kanturk. It was said to have belonged to the Mac Auliffs. The Annals of Loch Cé record that in 1510, Garrett, Earl of Kildare, marched from Carraig Cital in county Limerick and captured the castle of Ceann-tuirc. The castle at Curragh may be the one those annals refer to. The people of Kanturk have a legend for their name. They say O'Donoghue chased a great boar from Lough Lein in Killarney and killed it where the rivers Ealla and Dalua meet. A writer in the Transactions of the Ossianic Society connected this to boar worship, noting that legends of Fionn's battles with boars cluster at river junctions considered sacred in Hindostan. Dr. Joyce offers a simpler origin. He says the name shows the little hill near the town must have been a resort of boars. Ceann-tuirc means boar's hill, not boar's head as is usually supposed. The imposing ruins of the present Kanturk castle are a different place. Tradition says Queen Elizabeth, when she heard of the great strength of the castle MacDonogh was building, ordered him not to complete it. It came to be called MacDonogh's Folly. On the site of the old castle at Curragh, Neptune Blood built a house early in the century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 192 · source

Somewhere close to Reen, a story was set straight about ploughs in this part of Cork. A member of the Royal Irish Academy had told a tale that strained belief, raising doubts about whether ploughs were known here at all. The author of the survey disagreed. There are many rugged tracts in this county where ploughs are little used, but none where they are actually unknown. The poorest tiller of the rudest soil must have often seen one, even if he never used one. The custom of migrating every year to the eastern parts of the county for work is enough to make the implement familiar to their sight. The author had better authority for contradicting the report. The very gentleman whose authority had been relied on for the original information, the Reverend William Hodnet, resident at Reen and rector of the parish, assured the author that the use of the plough was increasing. He said there are now eight ploughs where, twelve or fifteen years ago, there were but three. The infrequency of its use in a district so rude, mountainous, and stony is no great wonder. Among the curiosities of this district, the author noted the discovery of some ancient silver coins by labourers employed in levelling an enclosure at Castlefreke. They were wrapped in a small bag, probably of leather, which had mouldered.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Statistical survey of the county of Cork : with observations on the means of improvement ; drawn up for the consideration, and by the direction of the Dublin Society (1810), Townsend, Horatio, 1750-1837, author, Internet Archive statisticalsurv11socigoog, Chapter 97 · source

Somewhere around here, in 1770, no roads had been cut for wheeled traffic. Butter had to go on horseback, firkins slung across the animals. Waking at night at the foot of the Boggeragh Mountains, you would hear the horse being tackled in the yard outside. A strip of lighted bog-deal, kindled at the constant turf-fire, flared up here and there as a servant-boy stooped and searched for a piece of harness mislaid the day before. At three o'clock, every five minutes or so, a horseman with three firkins slung came rattling and lurching through the Square and along the Main Street of Macroom. Until everywhere the day was coming up to that soothing rhymeless music of hoof-beats and rumbling wheels, the stagger and strain of unsprung axles down the roads. Now near six, they were climbing old Mallow Lane or by the Watercourse, for those travelling from the north. A greeting was exchanged, that undiplomatic ease and courtesy of men who are wise to sunsets and dawn. "There was a shower only and I near Fermoy." "'Twas cold and the horse wheezing on me and we passing Ballea." "That cock at Minane — he'd crow and we coming whatever kind the weather would be." So in 1770 and after, the high ground about the Butter Market was rich with the morning.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The glamour of Cork (1919), Kelleher, D. L. (Daniel Lawrence), Internet Archive glamourofcork00kelliala, Chapter 33 · source

Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey Garda station, built about 1930, having projecting bay to west. Hipped slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks with cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with platband and rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, concrete sills and raised limestone surrounds (ground floor). Square-headed opening with tripartite four-over-four timber sliding sash windows and concrete sill. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, limestone step and raised limestone surround supporting entablature. Outbuildings to rear (north-west). Rendered walls with piers and wrought-iron gates to front. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State, the government undertook a public building campaign, and many school and Garda stations were built throughout from the 1930s to 50s. This purpose-built Garda Station is typical of the high quality design and materials which characterised the buildings of the Board of Works at the time. Essentially classical in inspiration, the portions and limestone dressings create an imposing building, yet one which sits comfortably in its setting.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20911605 · source

As you come near Garinish Island, a mile northwest of Parknasilla, you are approaching a place where Lord Dunraven has a house. The island sits in a stretch of coast where the scenery shifts. When Sneem is reached, wooded promontories and islands come into view, and the landscape changes its character entirely. The little village of Sneem is built in irregular form with a fine open space, of the ordinary character, and the chief interest centres round the chapel and bridge. Two miles east from Sneem is Parknasilla, meaning the meadow of willows, and the residence of a former bishop of Limerick, now turned into an hotel. The view from the Southern Hotel, a modern structure built in a commanding position, is attractive from the combination of wood and sea and mountain which meets the eye at every point. To the west lies Sherky Island, between which and the mainland is a good anchorage, where His Majesty's destroyer flotilla frequently lies. And a mile to the northwest is Garinish Island itself, where Lord Dunraven's house stands surrounded by a variety of heaths and shrubs which make the resemblance to the Riviera of this secluded quarter more marked than ever.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 57 · source

West across the mouth of the Sneem river lies Garinish Island, fifty-eight acres of exquisite woodland belonging to the Earl of Dunraven. You reach it by a fifteen-minute pull across the water. Little footbridges span the clear channels between the demesne and nearby islets, giving charming walks. Boating, bathing, fishing, and mountain-climbing can all be had in the locality.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), , Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00unse_1, Chapter 56 · source

Built about 1800 by Colonel Simon White, brother of the first Earl of Bantry, Glengarriff Castle stands as a detached nine-bay two-storey house with a pair of three-bay full-height bows. To the south-west corner rises a rectangular-plan three-stage castellated tower with a bartizan, and to the north-east, a circular-plan tower. A three-bay two-storey wing attaches to a five-stage circular-plan tower, set at an angle to the main block, and ends in a three-stage tower with a battered base, joined to an ogee-headed carriage arch flanked by another three-stage tower. The walls are rubble limestone, with remains of lined-and-ruled, roughcast and smooth render. Label mouldings mark the openings of the three-storey wing and the circular tower. The door openings vary: pointed arch, square-headed, and ogee-headed. Later it became a hotel. Its guests included Yeats, Thackeray and Synge. Though now in ruins and in poor condition, it retains much of its original character and shows considerable architectural diversity.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20910501 · source

Ardaturrish More holds a megalithic tomb the records leave unclassified, its remains sitting on a flat-topped knoll overlooking Glengarriff Harbour. What survives is a chamber, aligned north-north-west to south-south-east, formed by two roughly parallel uprights that still support a roofstone. That roofstone is a rounded boulder, 1.6 metres north to south and 1.8 metres east to west, its cross-section shaped like an inverted triangle with the rounded apex pointing down into the chamber. No closing stones are visible. The roofstone resembles those used to cover boulder-burials, but the support-stones are more typical of a megalithic tomb. People locally call the tomb the altar. A second megalithic structure stands 2 metres to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO105-057---- · source

You are coming into Ballylickey, on the road that skirts the harbour and the head of Bantry Bay. An Irishman once called this road, in the words of the guidebook, "the most windingest in creation." The cyclist never knows what may be round the next corner, pigs, cows, or coaches, so it is well to be wary. The views of the bay are pretty but call for no remark. About a mile and a half back you crossed the Coomhola river at Snave Bridge, where a fine level road runs northward to Kilgarvan. Now several roads meet at Ballylicky Bridge. One, not recommended for cyclists, follows first the Coomhola and then the Slaheny river to Kilgarvan, 24 miles away. Another follows the river Owvane eastward to Keimaneigh and Gougane Barra, and so to Macroom and Cork. The coaches that run this route start from the Eccles, calling at the Belle Vue and Roche's on the way, covering ten and a half miles to Bantry. The main road continues round the bay for another four miles.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), , Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00unse_1, Chapter 62 · source

A fortified house in ruins, Reendisert Court. It was built about 1620 by Owen O'Sullivan Beara, a detached T-plan house of five bays, two storeys with attic and over basement. The walls are rubble limestone and rendered, with slate hanging and machicolations for defence, and tall chimneystacks rising above the pitched roofs. Owen O'Sullivan Beara built it to dominate the land, and even now in ruins it keeps that presence. The east section was later converted to use as a country house, while the west section became farm buildings. The building was nearly destroyed during the Parliamentarian War of Cromwell in the 1650s, but it remained inhabited until the late twentieth century. Those machicolations and towering chimneystacks still survive, and the house still makes a striking contribution to the local landscape at Ballylicky.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20910514 · source

Somewhere around here is Ballylicky, on the road from Glengarriff to Bantry. The Irish name is Belatha-lice, the ford-mouth of the flag-stone, and the book says whoever has seen it will acknowledge the appropriateness of the name. When a river spreads widely over a craggy or rugged spot, the rough shallow ford thus formed was often called Scairbh, or as O'Reilly spells it, Scirbh.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 396 · source

As you pass through Bantry, in Cork, you are in the country of Cannera, a virgin saint who made her hermitage in her own land. One night after vespers, while she was at her prayers, she saw all the churches of Ireland, and a tower of fire rising out of every one of them up to heaven. The fire that rose from Inis Cathaigh was the largest, the highest, and the most brilliant of all, and rose most directly heavenward. On seeing this she said, "that is the beautiful church, and it is to it I will go, that my resurrection may be out of it." She prayed that she might not lose sight of that tower of light, but that like the tower of fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, it might lead her to this place. God granted her prayer. She set out at once, with no guide but the blazing tower of fire, which burned without ceasing, day and night, until she reached it. When she came to the water at Limerick, she went on foot over the water as if on dry ground, and reached the shore at Inis Cathaigh at early dawn the next morning. St. Senan, knowing this, came to the shore to meet her.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 431 · source

Bantry, in Cork, was the scene of a French arrival in the winter of 1796. The citizens capable of carrying arms enrolled themselves among the yeomanry, and a determined resolution to resist the invaders pervaded every class of the population. On the 24th of December the French fleet, consisting of 7 ships of the line and 2 ships armée en flûte, besides frigates and transports, making in the whole 17 sail, anchored in the bay. Lieutenant Prosheau, a French officer, with 8 men, was driven on shore in a boat, in an attempt to leave one of the vessels which had been dismasted in the late storm. Being taken prisoners by the peasantry, they were sent to Cork, and from thence to Dublin, to be examined before the privy council. The French fleet remained in the bay until the 27th, when they quitted their station without having made any further attempt to land, and on the 28th the last division sailed out of the bay. On the 30th, 4 ships of 64 guns, 3 frigates, 2 razures, and 2 corvettes, with some transports, sailed into the bay and landed about 500 men on Whiddy island. It afterwards appeared they were convalescent troops, sent there for their health, and had paid for such provisions as they required. On the 2nd of January there were 13 ships at anchor across the mouth of the bay, from Beer island to Sheep head, of which 2 were line of battle ships. 6 other ships lay south-west of the island of Whiddy, and one a league from Bantry. At about 2 o'clock in the day a brig, having worked up the bay from the principal fleet, made a signal to these ships, which was returned by a shot from one of them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 133 · source

Coming through Bantry in Cork, you are passing ground where O'Sullivan fought in 1602, amid his own rocks, bogs and woods, in the face of his wife, children and people. The battle was for the defence of the cattle, their only subsistence, their all. Through the whole Munster war, never was a field so desperately contested. From rock to rock and ridge to ridge the Irish suffered the assault of the English, until the well-armed and fearless assailants carried one position after another, and the O'Sullivans gave way and scattered over the hills, like sheep, leaving their all a prey to the spoiler. Then Tyrrel, finding the left of his position on Slievelker turned by Wilmot, perceived the game was up in Munster. Hopeless of further Spanish aid, he retreated through Kerry, Limerick, Ormond and Ely O'Carroll until he reached his own country with all his partisans. O'Sullivan still clung with craving hope to his native rocks. But winter coming on, famine stared him in the face, for Wilmot had wasted all Bear, Bantry and the whole of Kerry. Not a cow, garran, goat or sheep did he leave.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 129 · source

The town of Bantry sits along this road, and in 1796 it was the place where the French expected a welcome that never came. The French had miscalculated. The Irish were not prepared to receive them as friends, nor to adopt the republican government they intended to establish. Tone had told the French Directory that the Irish were fixing their eyes on France, eager to fly to the standard of the republic, that the Catholics would join to a man, and that it would be as easy to raise an army of 200,000 men in Ireland as 10,000. Whether he wilfully misstated the fact or whether his temperament led him to believe his countrymen would join the French en masse, it is difficult to say. But it is certain the invaders would have been received not as friends but as enemies. Colonel Hall commanded a small force of about 700 men, hastily collected and sent to oppose the landing of the French. He stated that on his march to Bantry his men were cheered by the peasantry, supplied with food and drink by them, and received unequivocal demonstrations of their resolve to fight upon their cabin-thresholds against the entrance of a Frenchman. The London Gazette of the 7th of January 1797 noted that the disposition of the country where the troops were assembled was as favourable as possible, and that the greatest loyalty had manifested itself throughout the kingdom. The lord lieutenant, Earl Camden, wrote that the roads, rendered impassable by snow, were cleared by the peasantry, and that the poor people often shared their potatoes with the soldiers. Had the enemy landed, their hope of assistance from the inhabitants would have been totally disappointed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 33 · source

A burial ground at Kilnaruane, in Cork. It sits within an early ecclesiastical enclosure, a rectangular area bounded by an earthen bank. No grave markers have been noted. Local tradition holds it was a famine burial ground and a cillíneach for unbaptised children. A bullan stone, a cross fragment and architectural fragments lie within it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO118-031002- · source

The Mass-rock at Beach in Cork was reported by archaeologist Tony Miller in February 2012. He described a man-made altar set against a vertical, north-facing rock face. It comprises a two-tier altar supported by dry stone walling, adorned by many statues and votive offerings. A Holy Well stands about 3 meters from its western end.

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Somewhere around here is Hollyhill, the seat of Francis Roche. It sits by the river Bandon, two miles from Kinsale. The house has four regular fronts, and the gardens are well kept and laid out in an elegant manner, for Roche travelled through France and Italy. A fine avenue leads to the house, above an English mile long and well planted. The beginning is beautified with fine holly hedges set in several diamonds, the avenues crossing each other between, to take off the steepness of the hill and render it more easy. He has at great expense cut through a high rock to open a vista to the Bandon river, by which some marcasites of copper were discovered. To the north is a neat village, regularly built, of decent cottages for the accommodation of his tenants and labourers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. : Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. (1893), Smith, Charles, 1715?-1762, Internet Archive ancientandprese00caulgoog, Chapter 116 · source

Burial ground at Rosskerrig. It sits in pasture on an east-facing slope. The 1842 map marks it as a burial ground. It is a rectangular space, 31 metres east to west and 26 metres north to south, partly enclosed by a stone field fence. Many grave markers stand inside.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO130-017---- · source

A freestanding signal tower at Dromnea, built about 1805 and now disused. It is a two-bay, three-stage tower of rubble limestone, with a crenulated parapet, square-headed window openings with stone sills and lintels, and both pointed arch and square-headed door openings. It was one of a network of signal towers built along the Irish coast in anticipation of a French invasion. The system was doomed to failure, as the British had not taken the wet and misty climate of the west coast into consideration, which obscured the signals.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20912907 · source

This is a holy well at Dromnea in Cork, where a small amount of water sits beneath a rock on a rugged slope. It does not appear to be in holy use. It was once called Tober na n-Duanairidhe, the well of the poets.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO129-014---- · source

A tower house, Farranamanagh Castle, stood on a low ridge overlooking Ferranamanagh Lough on the north shore of Dunmanus Bay. Only the much-ruined ground floor survives, with a central opening in the north wall that was probably the door. It belonged to the O'Daly bardic clan.

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As the road nears Mount Gabriel in Cork, you're coming into a hill with a strange tale attached to it. The story goes that an angel, wishing to see the land Saint Patrick had promised to bestow forever on the Virgin, came down and perched on the western peak of the mountain. The mark of his standing is there to this day. His toes are branded on the rock as plain as if you clasped your four fingers and thumb upon a sod of drying turf. Just under that blessed mark lies a jewel of a lake, round as a turner's bowl and alive with trout. There are islands on it that float up and down, east and north and south, drifting across the water. But every Lady-day they come floating to the western point, and there they lie fixed under the crag that holds the track of the angel's foot. It was told to the traveller as he rowed past two long islands that sheltered the entrance of the bay of Skull, until he was abroad on what appeared to him like the great Western Ocean, a noble expanse stretching coastward east and west. cites: [105944]

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 75 · source

[121454] The ocean with its tales of shipwrecks and piracies, the land with its legends and traditions, afford themes to fill folios of interest and excitement; every castle (of which there remain the ruins of many) has its story of bold adventure. The lakes, too, are fertile of legends: for examples — that on the summit of Mount Gabriel, with its eternal serpent and depth that has never been fathomed; Loughdrine, where on a certain day in eveiy year the islands used to dance merrily, change places, and shift from one side to the other from sunrise to sunset; Ballinlough, where the fairies keep nightly guard, protecting the passage that leads from the ancient rath that borders it to the bottom, where flourishes the Thierna-na-oge — " the land of perpetual youth." The stranger will, in short, find, wherever he travels in this wild and comparatively primitive neighbourhood, a rich abundance to interest, excite, and amuse, and not a little to inform and instruct. And so, by this Coast Route, the Tourist arrives at Bantiy. A brief sojourn here will suffice: it will be recompensed principally by the views to be obtained from the summits of adjacent hills, or by a sail across the bay.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 22 · source

Burnt in 1921, this was the workhouse at Cooradarrigan, Cork. A wall encloses a sub-rectangular area, 170 metres north-east to south-west and 190 metres north-west to south-east, with a gate to the west. A stream divides it. Two two-storey structures survive at right angles. A burial ground abuts the enclosure to the east. It served as a hospital until the burning.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO139-040001- · source

The Mass-rock at Cooradarrigan is a fallen stone in pasture, south-west of boulder burials. Locally it is said to be a mass rock.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO139-043---- · source

The town of Skull sits in the far west of Cork. In the years after 1690, Downes counted the people of this parish. He found about four Protestant families and about four hundred Catholic families. Daniel Carthy was the Popish priest of the eastern part of the parish, and he had been there since before the late troubles. There was no glebe, no registry-book, no Bible, no Common Prayer book in Skull. In Kilmoe, the western part, there were ruins of a chapel at the west end of the town, dedicated to St. Mullagh. The church of Kilmoe was dedicated to St. Briana, also called Brandon, whose festival was observed in the parish. About nine Protestant families and two hundred Papists lived there. Teige Coghlen was Popish priest of Kilmoe and of the western part, or Skull, and had been there about eight years. A young Irishman, a Papist, taught school about the middle of the parish. All O'Sullivan's country observed St. Eooane's Day as a holiday. At Kinneigh a high round tower stood on the southwest corner of the churchyard, and the church was thought to have been a cathedral. A stone on the southwest corner of the church was counted very sacred, which the Irish solemnly swore upon. There was a tradition that a well in the churchyard once had great medicinal virtues, but the concourse of people being very chargeable to the inhabitants, they stopped it up. In Murragh, Daniel Hurly, a quiet man, was Popish priest of that and three or four contiguous parishes. There were more Protestants than Papists, and a registry, a Bible, and two Common Prayer books were lately bought. In Desertsurgis, 150 Protestant families, no Popish schoolmaster, a Bible and Common Prayer book lately bought. Denis Mahony was Popish priest.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 187 · source

As you pass through Skull in Cork, locals once believed a priest buried here worked miracles. He was known for curing ague, rheumatism, sore eyes, and falling sickness. Yet people questioned whether he was truly an austere man, asking if he denied himself daily and carried his cross, comparing him to Saint Jerome or Saint Anthony.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 95 · source

Coming up now is Schull, a town the road passes through in this stretch of Cork coast. The mountains here seem to rise straight from the sea, as if they are just the continuations of mountains underneath the ocean. Small villages are thickly scattered at their base. Mount Gabriel stands over Schull, bleak and barren from the foot to the summit. It looks down on what the old writer calls a poor village, though he notes it was once a famous collegiate town. Lakes appear in every valley, on the mountain sides, and on their summits, with streams pouring down that now and then break in cataracts over precipices. Opposite is the sea, with its green islands and black rocks, creeks and bays and harbours running into the land. Beyond all is the broad Atlantic, that affords no resting-place for the sea-bird until he closes up his wings and stands on the continent of America.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 22 · source

As the road brings you through Skull in Cork, the parish tells its own religious balance. In the parish of Skull there were about four Protestant families and about four hundred Papist families. Daniel Carthy was the Popish priest of the eastern part of this parish. He had been there ever since before the late troubles. Teige Coghlan was the Popish priest of Kilmoe and of the western part of Skull. He had been there about eight years. The Protestant parish had no glebe. There was no registry book, no Bible, and no Common Prayer book. The Catholic inhabitants had to support both their own clergy and the Protestant ministers. The Cork Grand Jury presentments show that fees were exacted from the Catholics for every domestic occurrence.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 313 · source

Excavated in 1989 by Dr. William O'Brien, this wedge tomb at Altar stands on a roadside platform near the rocky shoreline of Toormore Bay. The tomb consists of a simple slab-built chamber, aligned east-north-east to west-south-west, formed by two rows of three slabs each. One roofstone remained above the east end; a second rested against the west end. No clear evidence for a cairn was found during excavation, possibly due to intensive post-medieval cultivation and early 19th-century road construction. The socket for a backstone and a low stone kerb at the entrance were uncovered. The kerb contained three fragments of cetacean bone deliberately deposited, and overlay two pits on either side of the entrance. These pits held shattered slaty stone, possibly tooling debris from shaping the orthostats and capstones. Two cobble-hammers used in this activity were also recovered. A pit at the east end of the chamber held votive deposits of limpet and periwinkle shells and fish bones. A small spread of cremated human bone was found inside the entrance. Outside the chamber, struck pebble flint was recovered, including two end-scrapers and a broken hollow scraper, from cultivation-disturbed contexts. Only one fragment of struck flint came from the chamber itself. This is a National Monument in State care, number 645.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO148-005---- · source

The wedge tomb at Toormore in west Cork was excavated over five weeks in June and July of 1990, and the chamber was restored that September. The chamber was built from two rows of standing stones running roughly north-east to south-west. The northern row had three side stones set together, and the southern row had two with a gap between them of 0.85 metres, where a third upright slab probably once stood. The stones were set in foundation trenches and formed a gallery measuring 4.25 metres in length. The chamber falls in height from 1.26 metres at the west entrance to 0.90 metres at the east end. The ground plan is wedge-shaped, 1.88 metres wide at the south-west and 1.20 metres at the north-east, where a backstone closed the end. No evidence of a closing slab was found at the open west end. The chamber was probably roofed by two overlapping roofstones, only one of which survived. No evidence showed it had been covered by a cairn or mound. A bronze axe dating to the Early Bronze Age and two pieces of raw copper were found together on the north side of the tomb entrance. No other prehistoric artefacts were recovered, and there was no evidence of burials. Radio-carbon dating indicates the monument was built during the later stages of the Early Bronze Age, about 1700 to 1500 BC, and saw intermittent activity in later prehistoric and historic periods. A plan of the monument was surveyed in 1989 before excavation.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO148-001---- · source

Somewhere around here, in 1319, Fineen, eldest son of Dermod Mor, brought reinforcements from Ballyrisode. The Annals of Munster tell the tale. Donal Caomh, who ruled from 1311 to 1320, was a peaceful man. His name means mild or gentle. He kept clear of Edward Bruce and his wars. He was likely not involved in what happened here. A force of the MacCarthys, under the command of the sons of Finin MacCarthy, came in their long boats to Beara, to the island of Creagaire, Beare Island, to besiege Dermod Mor O'Mahony and his brother. They continued there for five weeks. Fineen, eldest son of Dermod Mor, brought reinforcements from Ballyrisode under difficulties. The vessels of Ivagha were engaged elsewhere, and only one was available. When at length sufficient clansmen had been brought over, there was a skirmish. Two of Dermod's family were lost, and one of Fineen MacCarthy's, and many followers on both sides. Finally, Dermod's two other sons, Donal and Dermod Oge, arriving with their ships, brought off their own party safely to the Carn, the Mizen Head. Donal Caomh married a daughter of Carew, Marquis of Cork, as her second husband. She had been widow of Dermod O'Mahon. The Marquis had settled in Carbery and built a castle near the Abbey of Bantry, called Carew Castle, otherwise Dunnamark. This was one of the many castles destroyed after the battle of Callan by the victorious party.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 159 · source

Ballydivlin wedge tomb stands on flat ground about 700 metres from the coast. Its gallery runs north-east to south-west. Three sidestones stand erect on the north side, one erect stone and one fallen sidestone on the south. A backstone closes the east end, another stone the west. A displaced roofstone may partly cover the west end. No trace of any surrounding mound survives.

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Near here, out on the Fastnet Rock, about four miles west by south of Cape Clear, stands a lighthouse. Its light is 148 feet above high-water mark and visible for eighteen miles. It gives a flash of five seconds per minute. Cape Clear itself is three miles long and one and a half broad at its widest part, almost cut in two near its southern end. That southern end is the highest point, an inaccessible cliff facing the sea. As the old saying had it, it is the first land sighted by vessels coming from America. The island is called Irtish Damhly in the old Irish manuscripts and Insulae Sancta Clara in the ecclesiastical books. It lies so far from the centre of civilisation that its people have kept more of their original customs and language than anywhere else in the United Kingdom.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 90 · source

Rock Island signal tower is a freestanding square-plan three-stage tower, built about 1800, now in ruins. Its rubble stone walls have string courses, a crenulated parapet, and a rubble stone staircase to the east. Openings are square-headed throughout, including the door on the north side. It was one of a network of watch towers built around the coast of Ireland to ensure a quick response to invasion, following an attempt of the French at Bantry in 1796. Its square-plan and first floor entrance form are similar to other signal towers in West Cork. It holds a prominent position, a physical reminder of Ireland's military history.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20914721 · source

This is the site of a castle at Castlemehigan. It stood in pasture on a cliff, with Crookhaven to the south. No visible trace remains above ground today. Lewis, in 1837, called the ruins Castle Mehan, built by the Mehans or O'Heas in 1540.

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During the wars of 1601, the Spaniards entrenched themselves on the high ground at Reen Point, sometimes called Galleon Point, commanding Castlehaven harbour. The point forms a bluff, rocky promontory marking the eastern boundary of the harbour. From this position the Spaniards bombarded Admiral Levison's ship when she went aground. The Spanish entrenchment, resembling an ancient rath, is still to be seen. Quite close to it are pointed out numerous little mounds of earth, the headstones almost covered by soil, where lie the remains of the Spaniards who had fallen in action or died of disease. In earlier times, when smuggling was an everyday occurrence, the hamlet of Grlenbarrahane carried on a flourishing trade in contraband with the coast of Spain. About a century ago a linen manufactory was established at Killehangill, but like many others throughout the country it has fallen to decay.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 10 · source

Marked on the 1842 map as a children's burial ground, this site in Killeane, Cork, now has a modern house standing on it. No trace of the burial ground can be seen at the surface.

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Lissagriffin Castle stands in tillage ground overlooking Barley Cove. No visible trace survives above ground. Lewis in 1837 noted some remains of ancient castles existing at Lisgriffin. A possible souterrain lies to the west-south-west. The record names it as O'Mahony castle.

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Barley Cove is a bay the road passes near, on the coast of Cork. In December 1796, Colonel White wrote from Bantry with news of what had happened there. A lugger had come to anchor behind Whiddy Island, full of men. Eight of his tenants went aboard with provisions and were detained. An American brig arrived and reported seeing two French frigates, one of twenty guns, the larger near Beer Island. The frigates fired at her. By five in the evening, what had looked like frigates turned out to be two sixty-four-gun ships, their bowsprits and rigging shattered as if from an engagement. A naval officer confirmed this. They lay at anchor on the north side of the island. Then came the dispatches from Admiral Elphinstone and Hull. A French forty-gun frigate, carrying 346 seamen and 230 soldiers, had been wrecked at Barley Cove. Only seven were saved. White added that if Kingsmill could send any force to Elphinstone, the French would be taken. The country people were prepared with pikes and spades, and would do their best.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 133 · source

Somewhere close to Crookhaven, in 1796, the French expedition fleet was first sighted by the Honourable Courtenay Boyle, commander of the Kangeroo frigate. He raced to Crookhaven to raise the alarm, but severe weather made communication with the mainland extremely difficult. Connections were eventually made, and the news was sent to Admiral Kingsmill at the Cove of Cork. Mr. Hall of Leamcon also passed the news to Mr. White of Seafield Park, who was the first to inform the Irish government, and was rewarded with elevation to the peerage as Lord Bantry.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 328 · source

A possible wedge tomb at Leenane. It sits on a level shoulder on a south-east-facing slope overlooking Crook Haven harbour. What survives can be read as a collapsed chamber, oriented north-east to south-west. A roofstone, about 2.2 metres by 2 metres and a quarter metre thick, rests above several slabs that may be single north and south side stones, with two possible outer-wall stones protruding from beneath the south side. No backstone or mound is visible. The record notes the interpretation is uncertain, but a wedge tomb with similar orientation lies 55 metres to the south-west, and a standing stone 180 metres to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO147-069---- · source

The road passes through the parish of Kilmoe, in Cork. There were ruins of a chapel at the west end of the town, dedicated to St. Mullagh. The parish church of Kilmoe was dedicated to St. Briana, also called Brandon, whose festival was observed in this parish. At the close of the 17th century, Kilmoe held about nine Protestant families and two hundred Papists. Teige Coghlen served as Popish priest of Kilmoe and of the western part, or Skull, and had been there about eight years. A young Irishman, a Papist, taught school about the middle of the parish. In all of O'Sullivan's country, they observed St. Rooane's Day as a holiday. The same record notes that nearby Skull parish had about four Protestant families and about four hundred Papist families, with Daniel Carthy as Popish priest of its eastern part, there since before the late troubles. There was no glebe in Skull, no registry book, nor Bible, nor common prayer book. At Kinneigh, a high round tower stood on the southwest corner of the churchyard, and the church was supposed to have formerly been a cathedral. A stone on the southwest corner of the church was counted very sacred, which the Irish solemnly swore upon. There is a tradition that in this churchyard there was once a well that had great medicinal virtues, and that the concourse of people being very chargeable to the inhabitants, they stopped it up.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive ahistorycityand00cusagoog, Chapter 98 · source

Somewhere around here is the Altar Wedge Tomb, a wedge-shaped gallery grave and national monument outside the village of Schull in County Cork.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Altar Wedge Tomb · source

Coming up through Skull in Cork, you pass a Protestant church that stands on high ground over the sea. A traveller once walked there with a friend who called it a plain building, yet fitted for as ample a congregation as any in Ireland. Few parishes, even in Protestant Ulster, could boast of a better filled house of worship. The church itself is unadorned but neat, with a modest belfry and white-washed walls that send their bright shadows over the water on a calm sunny Sabbath morning.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 93 · source

As you come through Schull, it sits at the foot of Mount Gabriel, brown and barren above the town. The shore looks out over a sound scattered with what the old guide calls "Carbery's hundred isles," the largest being Cape Clear Island. The sound runs some 15 miles and serves local trade, though few tourists use it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 90 · source

You're coming through Schull, down in west Cork. A man called Mr. Otway praised this coast for its remarkable beauty and its mild climate, where the native ash and oak grow mingled with foreign ilex and myrtle, and plants from more southern climes flourish in their native richness. The harbours of Schull and Castletown, along with the shores of Dunmanus Bay, were classed as places possessing the advantages sought after in seaside residences. The writer noted that if such places lay within sixty or eighty miles of London, its inhabitants would not content themselves with watering-places like Ramsgate and Margate, which possess no natural beauties. Even Eastbourne, Hastings and Brighton were said to be too open to the sea and to lack suitable strands.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 159 · source

Somewhere around here, Tim Jarvis dreamed again and again of a crock of gold buried beneath a furze bush in the Fort field. The next night his hopes got the better of his fears, so he armed himself with a bottle of potheen and went to the field. He jumped into the pit, took a little sup to keep his heart up, then a big one, and with a desperate wrench he wrenched up the stone. Up rushed a blast of wind, wild and fierce, and down fell Tim, down and down, until he thumped upon what seemed like a floor of sharp pins, which made him bellow out. Then he heard a whisk and a hurra, and voices beyond number cried out, "Welcome, Tim Jarvis, dear! Welcome, down here!"

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), T. Crofton Croker, Project Gutenberg #39752, Chapter 28 · source

A children's burial ground, a cillin, was remembered in a field at the north of Ardura Beg. William Casey gave this local tradition on 2 April 2013. The modern N71 road passes over the site.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO140-081---- · source

Somewhere close to Aghadown is Affadown, the seat of Colonel Beecher, three miles west of Skibbereen. It has gardens and plantations. The jawbone of a whale forms the side-posts and arch of a gateway, large enough for a coach to drive through, though some part is buried in the earth. Near it, on a rising ground, stands a round tower. On its top is a lantern, from which is a prospect of the adjacent coasts and islands, with the ruins of several old castles.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. : Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. (1893), Smith, Charles, 1715?-1762, Internet Archive ancientandprese00caulgoog, Chapter 144 · source

Somewhere around here stand the fragmentary ruins of Abbeystrowry Church, near Skibbereen, on the site of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey branch. In the year 1172, Dermot M'Cormac McCarthy, who was king of Cork at that period, founded a religious house in the parish of Myross. Smith, in his History of Cork, writing about a hundred years ago, states that in his time, even then, the traces above ground of both abbeys had disappeared. He says:

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 4 · source

Coming up along Skibbereen, in Cork. In 1847 a visitor walked with the Reverend Mr. F---- through the town's filthy lanes and into the graveyard. At its centre stood a small watch-house, seven feet long and six feet broad. It had served as a grave where the dying could bury themselves. An embankment of graves already rose halfway to the eaves around it. The entrance would scarcely admit a common-sized person. Living men, women, and children went down into that noisome sepulchre to die. They pillowed themselves upon rotten straw, upon the grave-clothes of previous victims, festering with their fever. They lay as closely to each other as if crowded side by side on the bottom of one grave. Six persons had been found in there at one time. Only one was able to crawl to the door and ask for water. The visitor's party removed a board from the entrance and found it crammed with wan victims of famine, ready and willing to perish.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and Its Neighbourhood (1847), Elihu Burritt, Project Gutenberg #25115, Chapter 2 · source

As you pass through Skibbereen, this is the town Burritt walked through on Saturday, February 20, 1847, with Reverend Mr. F---- and several gentlemen of the town. He called it a Potter's Field of destitution and death. The moment they opened the door, a crowd of haggard creatures pressed upon them with agonizing prayers for bread and followed them to the soup-house. One woman whose entreaties became irresistibly importunate had watched all night in the graveyard, lest the body of her husband should be stolen from his resting place, to which he had been consigned yesterday. She had left five children sick with the famine fever in her hovel, and she raised an exceedingly bitter cry for help. A man with swollen feet pressed closely upon them and begged for bread most piteously. He had pawned his shoes for food, which he had already consumed. The soup-house was surrounded by a cloud of these famine spectres, half naked, standing or sitting in the mud beneath a cold, drizzling rain. The narrow defile to the dispensary bar was choked with young and old of both sexes, struggling forward with rusty tin and iron vessels for soup, some of them upon all fours, like famished beasts. Among the crowd at the bread dispensary, one man stood out. He lived several miles from the town and had fastened his youngest child to his back and brought four more by his side, staggered to the door. His hair upon his face was nearly as long as that upon his head. His cheeks were fallen in, his jaws so distended he could scarcely articulate a word.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and Its Neighbourhood (1847), Elihu Burritt, Project Gutenberg #25115, Chapter 2 · source

Up ahead is Skibbereen, the town the road passes through. About two miles from here, on a desolate beach, stood the cottage of a poor, sick man named Harrington. Strange lights moved along the walls of his room, and the phenomenon became known as the Skibbereen lights. They drew visitors from across Cork and beyond: ministers, men of science, families from their country seats, fox-hunters, devotees, carriages, pedestrians, and horsemen. All of them tried to find fraud or imposture, and all of them failed. Inside, on a low bed beside the wall, destitute of every comfort, lay Harrington himself. There was calm in his eye and composure in his tone, no sign of pain of conscience or depravity of heart. He said he was happy night and day, though his suffering was great. He never asked for help or charity. The little he had seemed enough, and he did not care for more. A few visitors left a trifle behind them, but most gave nothing. He was so emaciated it seemed life could not long remain in such a frame. His arm was skin and bone. Yet after nearly a year had passed, those who saw him again were surprised to find the same emaciation. He was about thirty-five, and passed his time in reading and prayer, chiefly, it was said, in the latter.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 11 · source

As the road passes through Skibbereen, a market and post town in the parish of Abbeystowry, you are in a place that suffered more than any other in Ireland during the great famine of 1846 to 1848. The town stands on the southern bank of the river Hen and consists of seven streets. The census was expected to show a population of over 4,000, though no part of Ireland lost more of its people during those years than the town and district of Skibbereen. Like Dunmanway, Clonakilty, and Bandon, it once had a woollen and linen trade, but that belongs to its past history. It is well situated for trade. The tide from the harbour of Baltimore flows up to the town, and the river Hen is navigable for vessels of 200 tons to Old Court, two miles below the town. The parochial church of Abbeystowry is in Bridgetown. There is a chapel, a Grecian edifice, erected in 1826 under the direction of Doctor Collins, Bishop of Ross.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 265 · source

Coming through Skibbereen in 1847, you are passing through a town where some of the worst cabins in Ireland stood. In one of them, a visitor recorded what he saw, and it stayed with him through the night like a ghost. Dropsy was common among the famine sufferers. He had seen men working on the public roads with limbs swollen to twice their size. But nothing prepared him for what the woman of this cabin lifted from the straw. She pulled a boy of about twelve from behind a dying man and stood him on his feet. His cold, watery face was the only living part of him that seemed familiar. From his neck down he was naked in front. His body had swollen to nearly three times its usual size, bursting the ragged garment that covered him, so that it dangled in shreds behind him. Then the woman from the other family in the hovel brought forward her own infant, a thin-faced baby of two years. Its arms were no larger than pipe stems, cold and naked. Its body was swollen to the size of a full-grown person. Its eyes were clear and sharp and did not wink, but stared stock still at vacancy, as if a glimpse of another existence had eclipsed its vision. The visitor asked the reader to group these apparitions of death and disease into a space of ten feet square, and then multiply that across three-fourths of the hovels in this region of Ireland. That, he said, would give a fair estimate of the extent and degree of the misery. He wished that well-dressed children in America could have entered these hovels and seen the young creatures wasting away unmurmuringly by slow consuming destitution. He was sure they would have been touched to the liveliest compassion and ready to divide their wardrobe with the sufferers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and Its Neighbourhood (1847), Elihu Burritt, Project Gutenberg #25115, Chapter 2 · source

As you pass through Skibbereen, this is the second lane of hovels that Burritt visited with Dr. D---- on Sunday, February 21, 1847, on the opposite side of the village from the one he had seen the day before. He called it a mud city of the dead and dying, where the people and their clayey habitations seemed to be melting down together into the earth. A cold drizzling rain was deepening pools of black filth. When Dr. D---- appeared at the head of the lane, it filled with haggard, famine-stricken men, women, and children, some far gone in the fever, all imploring him, for the honour of God, to come and see a dying mother, father, or boy. Others raised their voices for bread. In every hovel they entered, they found the dying or the dead. In one straw-roofed burrow, eight persons had died in the last fortnight, and five more lay on the same fetid straw upon which their predecessors had been consumed by the fever. There was no food, no fuel, no bed, only filthy straw in a corner. There was no window, only the door, so they would stand in darkness until a wisp of burning straw revealed wan-faced children grouped together, their large still eyes looking out. In one cabin an old woman lay on straw, her head near a small iron vessel steaming with slimy sea-weed. That was all her daughter could serve her. The last cabin held two families, both thinned to half their number. A dead woman lay on one side of the fireplace. On the other, an old man lay on straw, unable to speak. He might have been ninety or fifty. This wasting consumption of want brings out the extremest indices of old age in the features of even the young.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and Its Neighbourhood (1847), Elihu Burritt, Project Gutenberg #25115, Chapter 2 · source

Skibbereen, a town the road passes through in Cork. In 1798, this town saw the arrest of eleven privates of the Westmeath Militia. They were accused of being United Irishmen, conspiring to murder their officers and join with the country people to pillage and burn Skibbereen. The arrests were part of a wider crackdown. In June, General Myers occupied all exits from the city of Cork with troops and made house-to-house searches for arms, though not many concealed weapons were found. News of the rebels' defeat at Vinegar Hill had just arrived. Seven Roman Catholic bishops of Munster sent an address to their clergy, calling for their utmost endeavours against what they termed "this baneful contagion." In the countryside, the yeomanry were active. The Muskerry corps brought from Blarney, and the Bandon corps from Bantry, persons charged with administering unlawful oaths and other treasons. On the 29th of June, Government issued a proclamation offering pardon to all rebels in arms who should surrender within fourteen days. The eleven privates were escorted to Cork by yeomanry. At their trial, some comrades turned informers. All but two were found guilty. Four were shot. Four were ordered to serve abroad. One received a thousand lashes. After the arrests, fights continued between troops and detached bodies of rebels, though the rebellion was practically suppressed. In July, Lord Cornwallis became lord lieutenant and received an address from Roman Catholic gentlemen offering their best exertions to stay the insurrection. Quiet returned until August, when a small French force landed suddenly at Killala Bay. They surrendered shortly after to a force under Lord Cornwallis following a battle at Ballinamuck.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 123 · source

A rectangular tower house, Oldcourt, standing on the east shore of the River Ilen estuary in Cork. It measures 9 metres east to west and 7.3 metres north to south, and rises four storeys, though it was originally at least one floor higher. On the north and west sides stand the much altered and poorly preserved remains of a bawn enclosure. The tower was entered through doors at ground and first floor level in the west wall. The first floor door gives access to a mural chamber to the south over the ground floor doorway, with a portcullis slit in the floor. Mural stairs to the north rise as a spiral in the northwest corner to reach the second and third floors, above a vault. The second floor windows are covered by segmental vaults with stone seats. Small fireplaces sit in the south wall at second and third floor level. Traces of centering supports for a second vault above the third floor remain, but the vault itself has entirely fallen. This was a castle of the O'Driscoll clan, taken by Crown forces after the Battle of Kinsale.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO141-116---- · source

A holy well, Lady's Well, in Creagh, standing in pasture on a north-facing slope. It was marked on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map, but no remains of the well have been noted. A ruined church stands a short distance to the west.

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Somewhere around here is Inishbeg, a small island where the river separates into two distinct channels, the western one navigable for vessels of about 250 tons as far as Old Court. A memorable circumstance connected with this island is recorded in the Genealogy of Corca Laidhe. At Ard-na-bPartan, meaning Crab Fish Hill, Conall, chieftain of Corca Laidhe, the ancient name of Carbery, presented the Book of Dues to St. Fachtnan, the first Bishop of Rosscarbery. This happened about the latter end of the 6th century. On each bank of the river is a place called Collatrum Beg and More on the Ordnance Map, though the ancient name is still used by the peasantry of Carbery. Separated by a narrow channel from Inishbeg, between the two river channels, lies the next island, Ringa Roega or Donegal as styled in the charts. Donegal derives from Dun-na-n Gall, meaning castle or stronghold of the foreigners. The county of Donegal, anciently Tyrconnell, got its name similarly from a fort built by the Danes near the town. At the north end of Ringa Roega stand the remains of an ancient castle, erected in 1215 by the Barrets of Munster. Around the same period were built the castles of Dun-na-sead at Baltimore and Glandore Castle.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 4 · source

At The Lag on Ringarogy Island, a passage tomb stands on a small rocky eminence in the estuary of the Illen River. Almost all of it is inundated at high tide. The tomb is covered in seaweed, and only the tops of two orthostats are visible above the high-water mark. What remains is a gallery aligned east-north-east to west-south-west, formed by three sidestones to the north and three to the south. The gallery opens to the east, where a jamb-like stone stands at the east end of the north side, with a smaller orthostat beyond it, suggesting some elaboration of the entrance. The west end is closed by a substantial backstone. Four prostrate slabs east of the entrance and two more to the south are probably displaced roofing elements. The mound has mostly been removed by tidal action. Three kerbstones remain in situ 2 metres north of the gallery, and three possible examples can be identified to the north-west.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO150-057---- · source

This is a holy well at Rathmore in Cork. It sits in pasture on a west-facing slope. A rectangular stone-lined well is built into the slope with a lintelled stone cover. A large stone slab partially closes its west-facing opening. It now serves as a drinking trough for cattle.

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Coming up now is Baltimore, the town on the coast in Cork. On Christmas Day 1413, this was the seat of the O'Driscolls, whose great house or castle stood within the haven. Symon Wicken, Mayor of Waterford, in the first year of his mayoralty, sailed here on Christmas Eve with a ship of armed men. The bailiffs Roger Walsh and Thomas Saulter were with him. In the night of Christmas Day, at supper time, he landed his men and came in good order to the gate of O'Driscoll's great house. He called the porter and told him to say to his lord that the Mayor of Waterford had come into the haven with a ship of wine and would gladly come in to see him. The porter gave the message. The gate was set open. The mayor took the porter and put him aside, and walked into the great hall. O'Driscoll and his kinsman and friends were sitting at boards, ready to sup. The mayor commanded them not to move or fear, saying he meant to draw no man's blood of that house, only "to dance and drynke, and so to depart." With that he took up to dance with O'Driscoll and his son, the prior of the friary, O'Driscoll's three brethren, his uncle, and his wife. Leaving them in the dance, the mayor commanded every one of his men to hold fast the said persons. After singing a carol, they came away and brought O'Driscoll and his company aboard the ship, telling them they should go to Waterford to sing their carol and make merry that Christmas. They made sail and arrived at Waterford on St. Steven's Day at night, where they were received with great joy and lights. Years later, reprisals came. On June 3, 1461, an overthrow was given by the mayor and citizens of Waterford upon O'Driscoll at Ballymacdare, in the county of Waterford.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 429 · source

Baltimore is a town with a history worth hearing. In 1601 the owners of the soil joined the Tyrone rebellion and placed their castles in the hands of the Spaniards. That act brought consequences. An English colony was introduced into the town, which was then walled and incorporated and given the privilege of parliamentary representation. Thirty years later, in 1631, Algerian pirates attacked. They massacred the inhabitants and carried off 200 of the settlers as slaves. A rock commanding the harbour is crowned by the ruins of Dunashad Castle, and the Church has a fine tower. The harbour extends northward almost to Skibbereen. The largest of the islands is Sherkin, at the mouth of the bay, about 3 miles long by 2 broad. It once contained a Franciscan abbey and a strong castle. Both were destroyed by the citizens of Waterford, to punish the piratical proclivities of the O'Driscolls, who owned this and the surrounding islands and a slice of the mainland. The ruins can be seen from the Beacon, and only enthusiastic antiquaries will go to the expense of hiring a boat to reach them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 90 · source

You are coming into Baltimore, a town in Cork with a dark episode in its history. Lord Dunsany stood in Parliament and reported what happened here. Three men were dragged from their houses and shot on the fair-green of Baltimore, without any form of trial. They were hardly given time to make their peace with heaven by saying a few prayers. The bodies of the victims lay exposed all that day, with no friend or relative daring to approach them. Then, at a late hour of the night, the military tied the bodies on a car and brought them to the house of the parish priest. They forced the priest to get up, and threw the dead bodies into the house. Lord Dunsany described it as adding outrage on the feelings of the living to the murder of the dead. Dunsany used this story to press Parliament on the wider pattern of violence. He spoke of several villages in Westmeath destroyed by fire without legal inquiry, trial, or ceremony of any kind. He warned the lords that several hundreds of the King's subjects had been transported without any show of trial or legal proof. He asked whether they would, by their vote that night, countenance such cruelties and become accessories after the fact. If they did, he said, consider how you are to answer it to God, your king, and your country.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 334 · source

A holy well at Baltimore, in Cork, where no visible trace remains and a pump stands in its place now. Baltimore Castle lies a short distance to the north-east. In the early 17th century, Sir Fineen O'Driscoll is said to have thrown fistfuls of silver coins into the well to amuse and enrich some English sailors.

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Baltimore was the scene of a famous seizure in 1537. On the 20th of February that year, four ships from Lisbon carrying wine for Waterford merchants were driven by storm to Cape Clear, Baltimore, and the Old Head of Kinsale. One of them, the Santa Maria De Soci, with 100 tuns of wine aboard, took refuge in a bay near the entrance to Baltimore harbour. Conoghar O'Driscoll, chieftain of Sherkin, and his sons boarded her and piloted her safely into Baltimore harbour. The agreed reward for the pilotage was three pipes of wine. But the O'Driscolls then turned on the merchants, attacked the ship, and shared out the wine among their neighbours.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 5 · source

As you come through Baltimore, you are passing the town where Turkish corsairs under their commander, Matthew Rice, carried out a devastating raid. The commander advanced on the town with about 140 of his Turks, leaving 60 musketeers in ambush along the road. He took with him John Hackett, the skipper of one of the little vessels, as a guide. Rice carried the place by assault and surprised the English inhabitants. His men broke into 40 houses and plundered 37 of them. They killed two men, John Davys and Timothy Corlew, and captured about 100 prisoners, young and old. A man called William Harris was woken by the noise, looked out of his house, and saw that the place was overrun by Turks. He fired several shots, arousing the neighbours, and drums were beaten in the upper part of the town. Rice and his men fell back to their ambushed forces in reserve, and from there to the vessels, but they did not weigh anchor until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Thomas Bennett, who lived at some distance from Baltimore, was informed by fugitives of the disaster and posted a letter at once to Mr. James Salmon of Castlehaven. Salmon sent with all speed to Kinsale a message to Captain Hooks of the king's ship lying there, praying him to sail at once and rescue the poor people from the corsairs. The same messenger was directed to ride on to Mallow to inform the Lord President. The king's ship sailed as soon as possible, but before her arrival the Turks were far at sea. The material lists the persons carried off, beginning with William Arnold, his wife, and three children. It would be interesting to know if any of them ever returned, or what their fate in captivity was.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. : Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. (1893), Smith, Charles, 1715?-1762, Internet Archive ancientandprese00caulgoog, Chapter 149 · source

Coming up now is Baltimore, the town the road passes through. It was once a borough town with a charter from James the First, governed by a sovereign and burgesses. That distinction probably came from the celebrity of its harbour, at a time when the inner parts of the country were little cultivated. But the cause of its honours became the occasion of its ruin. In 1631, two pirate vessels from Algiers entered the harbour at dead of night. Their crews were not satisfied with plundering the town. They carried off a great number of the inhabitants. Their treacherous conductor, a Dungarvan fisherman, was afterwards executed. But Baltimore never recovered from the disaster. The corporation fell into disuse, though it still sent members to parliament until the union. Skibbereen's more central situation left Baltimore without its former advantages.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Statistical survey of the county of Cork : with observations on the means of improvement ; drawn up for the consideration, and by the direction of the Dublin Society (1810), Townsend, Horatio, 1750-1837, author, Internet Archive statisticalsurv11socigoog, Chapter 117 · source

An unclassified castle at Ballylinchy. In 1538 a document referred to what it called 'Teig O'hidriskoll's goodly moated site.' Stone walling is visible on the shore at Church Strand Bay, with upstanding walls nearby that may have formed part of a bawn. An area of foreshore was deliberately cleared so small craft could land there.

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A levelled castle site at Ardagh South in Cork. It stood on a high rock outcrop with a commanding view in every direction. The 1842 map shows a rectangular structure. Today only a grass-covered mound of rubble remains, with some stone-faced earthen terracing. Lewis in 1837 noted that a small fragment only exists. It was an O Driscoll castle.

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A holy well, Tobarín na súl, the well of the eyes, in Knockomagh Wood on the north side of Lough Hyne. It is a small well, about 1 metre east to west and less than a metre north to south, only 0.2 metres deep. A U-shaped stone wall covers three sides, overgrown with moss and ivy, and the well opens to the east toward a path. Rosary beads and other religious and personal items have been placed on the wall, and pieces of cloth hang from a mountain ash tree to the west. This well and another called Shour Well, about 50 metres to the north, are both dedicated to St Brigit.

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Highfield's holy well is a stone-covered well set into a semicircular enclosing wall, north of Lough Hyne. The wall is painted white, with statue-filled niches and holy objects embedded in it. White quartz pebbles spread across the ground in front, measuring 5 metres by 4 metres. South of the well, a stone wall encloses a rectangular area with a stone altar at one end. A decorated hawthorn tree stands behind the well, still in holy use.

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Somewhere close to Castle Island, the Mahonys once came into sudden wealth from the gold and goods of a wrecked African ship. They sold the gold to pedlars and shopkeepers in Baltimore and Skibbereen, bought tobacco by the roll and whiskey by the hogshead, and brought a piper from Bantry and a fiddler from Clonakilty. They lived it up every day from Saturday to Thursday, eating bacon, swilling whiskey, dancing, and, as the old saying has it, "running lewdly to the devil." Then the fever came among them, and they died like sheep of the red water. The churchyard has them all now, except one old man, a lone beggarman with no son to carry him to the grave. The gold that came from the sea brought them nothing but ruin.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 77 · source

Somewhere around here is where Ballyally Castle stood, near Ennis. On the 10th of January 1642, Hugh O'Grady of Stradnegalow raised his clan and began hostilities against the English settlers in the county of Clare. On the 4th of February, they, along with Connor O'Brien of Lemeneigh, Sir Donell O'Brien, and a few others of that name, though without the approval of the Earl of Thomond, and aided by the MacNamaras, the O'Loghlens of Burren, the O'Hogans, the O'Shaughnessys, and others, made their attack on Ballyally Castle. The castle was held by the widow of Maurice Cuffe, an Englishman and a merchant in Ennis, assisted by her sons, one of whom was ancestor of the Earl of Desart. Captain Henry Gradey of Cnockaney in the county of Limerick was one of the chief leaders in the undertaking, and he was deputed to summon the castle. He was asked by some upon the battlement what authority he had to demand it, or what right or claim he could lay to it. He answered that he had commission from his majesty to banish all the Protestants of the kingdom of Ireland. Upon that, without further examination, a bullet was sent from the castle by one of the warders to examine his commission. It went through his thigh, but he made shift to crawl to the bushes and there fell down. He lay by it only sixteen weeks, in which time it was cured. The siege was raised on the 27th of February after a successful sally from the castle.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Limerick, its history and antiquities; ecclesiastical, civil, and military,from the earliest ages, with copious historical, archaeological, topographical, and genealogical notes (1884), Lenihan, Maurice, 1811-1895, Internet Archive limerickitshisto00leni, Chapter 38 · source

Marked on maps from 1842 and 1902, this is a burial ground in rough pasture between two ridges of outcropping rock in Drishane More. A small subtriangular field holds numerous grave markers, known locally as kill burial ground for children, according to Mr. Paul Walsh. A radial stone enclosure 250 metres to the north is named Kill Burial Ground on the same maps.

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Somewhere close to Bawnlahan, Edmond Donovan killed the eldest son of O'Sullivan Beare. It happened in a dispute over the boundary of their estates. Donovan fled the county of Cork and settled at Gaulstown in county Kilkenny before 1643. The Donovans of this branch kept the memory of their descent alive across generations. An Edmond Donovan, born in 1760, married Eleanor Hoberlin of Rochestown in 1788, and died on the 29th of July, 1817. As he lay dying, he told his eldest son, who sat beside him, to remember his descent. He asked to be buried, in his words, “along with the good men of Dunkitt, but not under the large tombstone.”

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 265 · source

The burial ground at Rea is a children's burial ground, marked as such on the 1842 map. It lies in pasture, a subcircular area about 16 metres north to south and 14 metres east to west, partially enclosed by a low stone wall. No gravemarkers were noted.

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Up ahead is Castletownshend, a town on the head of Castle Haven. Toe Head, eastward of the lough, commands a singularly beautiful scene, and three rocks of unusual height called the Stags stand between the water and the land. The ocean is flecked with small islets, around which the sea dances and sparkles in the sunlight. A western promontory terminates at the head and shuts in Castle Haven, and at its head is Castletownshend, of old known as Sleugleig. The modern name of the town and of the bay comes from a strong castle belonging to the Townsends. Followers of King James besieged that castle twice, in vain, during the struggle that culminated in the battle of the Boyne. Earlier, in 1602, the harbour was the scene of a naval engagement between the Spaniards under Don Pedro de Zuibar and the British fleet commanded by Sir Richard Levison. There are several inns in the town.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 77 · source

The road passes near Castletownshend in Cork. On the 13th of August 1780, the French warship Count D'Artois, carrying 74 guns, was taken off its harbour. Captain M'Bride, commander of His Majesty's ship Bienfaisant, made the capture. On the 17th of the same month, the mayor and corporation of Cork presented him with the freedom of the city for the service.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 122 · source

Castletownshend is a town in Cork. In 1783, the Cork cavalry set off from the city for this town, in quest of insurgents said to be meditating mischief against the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. They scoured the country for a great number of miles. Then they apprehended Denis Connell, otherwise called Cock-a-bendy, charged with sounding a horn to assemble a mob and disturb the peace.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 124 · source

Castletownshend is a town the road passes through in County Cork. On October 28, 1766, the prince de Monsereda was travelling through Europe on board the Delight when contrary winds forced him to put in here. He was treated with every mark of respect and distinction suitable to his dignity, and received all the entertainment the place could afford.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 105 · source

The road is taking you through Castletownshend, and the story here reaches back to 1690. Colonel O'Driscoll was a brave soldier who had commanded a regiment of his own tenantry at the siege of Cork. When Marlborough offered terms, O'Driscoll had no faith in English treaties. He refused, and at the head of four hundred men fought his way through the English lines and reached open country to the north-west of the city. There he learned that young Colonel O'Driscoll, his son or kinsman, had been slain in an attempt to retake Castlehaven, which the British had captured. The country around was despoiled and the people were fleeing to the mountains. Burning with revenge, he marched along the line of the Bandon, passing through Ballineen and Inniskeen, scattering English settlements as he went. Turning westward, he bore directly for Castlehaven, took it by storm, and put the whole English garrison to the sword. Other places fell in quick succession, his force growing with each success. Joined by Colonel McCarthy, they attacked the forces of Tettau under Eppinger, Cox, and Coy, drove them from the interior, and the reduction of the country was abandoned for that time.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The Battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 (1867), John Boyle, Project Gutenberg #54518, Chapter 15 · source

Somewhere around here, beneath Knockdrum in Cork, there are dark, gloomy chambers excavated out of solid rock, connected by narrow passages and ventilator shafts. The remains of a stone house, called a clochan, have been found in close proximity to these underground passages, as if one served as the ante-room and the other as the basement story. The date of their construction is of very remote origin, belonging most probably to a pre-Christian era. The inhabitants of these gloomy chambers on Knockdrum, whether they were Firbolgs, Tuatha de Danaans, or Milesians, had no very advanced or elevated ideas about domestic comforts or architectural progress. In this respect, however, they may have been on a level, if not superior, to the majority of the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of the time in which they flourished. Above ground, the view from this eminence toward the sea is beautiful and charming, diversified by bright verdant nooks and sheltered spots, oases in the wilderness of rocks. Alluvial deposits washed down from the hillsides into their present position repay careful cultivation. The dull brown of the rocks is relieved by purple heather, golden tufted furze, and the white spray-like blossoms of the fragrant hawthorn.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 10 · source

This is a burial ground at Forenaght in Cork. It is marked as a children's burial ground on the 1842 map. Today the site lies in scrub and cannot be made out because of heavy overgrowth.

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Coming up along Unionhall now. Back in 1832, a poor labouring man named Thomas Harrington lived in a small cabin close to the sea-side, at the foot of a hill called Ardagh, in the parish of Myross, in the immediate vicinity of Union Hall. He was a man of a delicate constitution. Exposure to hardship, cold, and damp brought on an attack of consumption, and for six years, from 1832 to 1838, he lingered in a dying state, his health gradually undermined by the slow, insidious, but certainly fatal ravages of that most incurable disease. During this period strange lights of a ghastly hue, assuming the most varied forms, were observed from time to time within the walls of the cabin and over the body of the sick man. The report soon travelled far and wide, and from various parts of the county persons of all ranks of society, male and female, assembled to witness Harrington's Lights. Some observed nothing. Some saw faint glimmerings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 11 · source

A tower house at Listarkin stood on the south shoulder of an east-west ridge, land falling steeply to the south, with views over the Myross headland and out to sea. This large rectangular structure was about 15 metres by 8 metres. Most of it is now rubble, though part of the lower battered face of the south-west wall survives, and the stump of the west corner stands to first-floor level with the remains of two window embrasures. Local tradition puts its building in 1251, but the ruin dates from the 15th or 16th century.

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You're coming through Unionhall, which sits with Glandore on either side of Glandore Harbour. Dean Swift lived here for a period. The climate is noticeably mild, something the guide says marks the whole south-west of Ireland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_1, Chapter 89 · source

Up ahead is Unionhall, a town the road passes through here in Cork. A manuscript once lived in this place. The original copy by John Collins, a brief condensed history of ancient Ireland, and the pedigree of the O'Donovans of Clancahill, was possessed by Mr. Philip O'Donovan of Union Hall, Myross. Collins also wrote on the genealogy of the MacCarthys, and that manuscript was held by the same hand who wrote a brief account of Collins himself. The O'Donovan pedigree sat here in this coastal parish, the work of a man who set down the lines of old families and the condensed story of the country before the famine years. The manuscript carried the names and the lineage of Clancahill through the rooms of a house at Union Hall. At the south-east corner of Myross, close to the mouth of Glandore Harbour, lies the townland of Carigilihy. Before 1846 a thriving hamlet stood here, with about 700 people, who lived chiefly by fishing and trading along the coast. When famine came, hunger and disease reached this remote place too. Most who survived emigrated to America. Now only ruined habitations and a scanty population remain, where a numerous colony once resided.

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Coming through Unionhall now, beside Glandore Harbour. Dean Swift lived here for a time, and you can see why he might have liked it. The harbour stretches far between Unionhall and Glandore on the other side. The climate across this whole stretch of the south-west is noticeably mild, and Glandore in particular was once thought a charming winter resort for invalids.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 77 · source

Aghatubrid More tower house stands on high ground overlooking Glandore Harbour to the south. The remains, measuring 9.8 metres north to south and 12.93 metres east to west, are now incorporated into a residential house, heavily modified over time. A two-storey block with a late 19th century embattled parapet was built around the core of an earlier tower. Original features survive, including a wall base batter, a central pointed ground floor door in the east wall with a yett hole, a blocked ogee-head light at first floor level, and gable-shaped gun loops on the east and west elevations, similar to those at nearby Raheen castle. A tall tapering tower stands on the north-west corner, with the north wall 2 metres thick at the base and the other walls about 0.9 metres. This was a castle of the O'Donovan clan, chief seat of Clann Lochlainn.

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You're coming through Glandore now. Thompson was a figure here who once proposed a Deep Sea Fishery Company with Glandore as its chief depot, but the plan came to nothing, like his other projects. In his will he left his body to his medical attendant, with what the book calls

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 14 · source

A tower house at Kilfinnan, standing on the coast overlooking Glandore harbour, at the south-west corner of an embattled 19th century castle. Rectangular in plan, 7.7 metres east to west and 5.85 metres north to south, with thick walls and an external base batter. It was converted to residential quarters, with doors and windows inserted. The interior was not accessed.

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The road runs through the parish of Kilfaughnabeg, set between Ross and Glandore. It was once called Fidh Buis, but the name it holds today comes from its patron saint Fachna, meaning

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Carbery, county Cork, : its antiquities, history, legends, and topography (1876), Donovan, Daniel, Internet Archive sketchesincarber00dono, Chapter 15 · source

Coppinger's Court is a man-made feature in Cork. The story goes that Coppinger, in a rage one Sunday, vowed to execute some obnoxious individual as soon as he returned from prayers. He did not wish to carry out the sentence without first attending to his devotions, so religious a character was he. The report goes on to say that Coppinger, when leaving the church, suddenly dropped dead in a fit, brought on by violence of passion. The people believed at the time that it was a visitation of Providence which cut him off in the midst of his designs. After his death the estate passed in fragments into the hands of several new owners.

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Close to Derry is a famous episcopal seat overlooking Lough Foyle, dedicated to St. Columba. Its name means the Grove of Columba's cell. English heretics landed against the wish and command of O'Donnell. They expelled priests and monks, invaded the holy churches, and in one church placed gunpowder, leaden bullets, bow-strings, slings, spears, and other arms. In other churches they performed the heretical rites of Luther, Calvin, and others of that class of impious men. They left nothing undefiled. St. Columba, it is supposed, did not long delay the punishment of this sin. The natives confidently assert that a wolf of huge size and bristling hair came boldly out of the nearest wood, and entering the iron barriers, emitting from his mouth sparks such as fly from red hot iron when struck, proceeded to where the powder was stored, and set fire to powder and church. The writer does not vouch for the truth of this story. Upon fame and long-standing tradition let it rest. This, which is admitted by all: the gunpowder suddenly took fire, the English who were in the church were burnt up, and those patrolling round the church struck with burning tiles fell dead. Those who fled to neighbouring houses or into the adjoining lake were killed by pursuing tiles, some thrown five hundred paces from the town. Without a single Irishman being wounded, Randal miserably perished with seven hundred English, except a few.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 265 · source

You are coming through Ross Carbery now. In 1641 and 1642 this was one of the places where the Great O'Donovan, as the Irish called him, did much spoil. His father had been a most notorious rebel, and had burnt the town of Rosse in the last wars. O'Donovan or his soldiers most inhumanely killed a daughter of the old Lord Bishop Lyons, a woman who was both deaf and dumb. Yet he came in upon his protection and saved his lands. Others joined the spoil across the country. O'Sullivan Beare, Teige O'Dounce, Florence McCartee of the castle of Banduffe, and Black O'Cullane joined their forces together. They took great store of pillage and robbed the English about Bantry, Kilcoe, Affadowne, Balledahab-Landore, Cloghnakilty and Inniskeane, Castletowne alias Poldonstowne, the town of Rosse, and all those parts.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 178 · source

Coming up near Ross Carbery. This was Corca Laidhe, the original country of the O'Driscolls and their kin, co-extensive with the diocese of Ross, or Ros-ailethre. Over the centuries, surrounding tribes encroached on and circumscribed their territory.

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As you pass through Ross Carbery, you are near the strand where a fortune in silver may still lie hidden. In 1582, when William Lyons became the first Protestant bishop under Elizabeth, all the cathedral and monastery plate and bells were secreted away. They were solid silver, valued at £7,000. Tradition says they were buried deep somewhere in the strand, and nothing has ever been found.

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As you pass through the town of Ross Carbery, you are near the graveyard where the Reverend John Power was buried after his death in 1831. He was a parish priest said to have had some knowledge of the healing art, and greatly loved by the people while he lived. On each anniversary of his birthday, crowds gathered from across the south of Ireland and sometimes even from England. The lame, the blind, the old and young, the healthy and the sick, and destitute people came soliciting alms around his tomb, honouring his memory since his death.

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The road takes you through Ross Carbery, a town once called Ross-Alithri, the Wood of the Pilgrims. Its cathedral is said to have been founded in the beginning of the 6th century by St Fachnan Mongach, called the Hairy, who had been Abbot of Molana, a monastery on an island in the Blackwater, near Youghal. His memory is held in great veneration here, and he is patron saint of the diocese. A tradition tells that it was his daily habit to retire to the side of a hill near the town for private prayer. One day he left his prayer-book behind him. The night was very wet, but the prayer-book was as dry in the morning as Gideon's fleece. The words from the source say "the angels had built a small chapel over it." This little chapel, or oratory, stood on the hillside. Doctor Smith says it was repaired by a person who, in a fit of sickness, had vowed, if he recovered, "to build a church." But to build a church and rebuild an oratory are different things.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 263 · source

A portal tomb at Ahaglaslin, in Cork. It stands on a small platform near the top of a hillside, overlooking the valley of the Ownahinchy River. The tomb is well preserved. Two tall portal stones mark the entrance to the chamber on the east side. The sides and back of the chamber are each formed of single stones. A high-pitched roofstone covers the chamber, resting on the portals and two large pad-stones to the west. Two slabs lean against the south side of the chamber, and three small stones lean against the north portal. Their function is unclear. In front of each portal, an orthostat forms the inner end of a funnel-shaped approach.

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This is a tower house at Castlefreke, overlooking Rahavarrig Lough and Long Strand to the south, with land sloping gently to the north and east. According to Gillman, writing in 1897, Randal Oge Barry built it in the 15th century. By 1642 it belonged to Arthur Freke, when Irish forces subjected it to a prolonged and unsuccessful siege. The site is now occupied by 19th century farm buildings of the Castlefreke estate. Little of the earlier defences survive. At the south-east corner of the coachyard, a rounded arch covers a rectangular area of 7.3 metres by 4.1 metres, springing from two noticeably thick walls, now altered and rebuilt. A tall revetment wall skirts the site to the south and west, built against the rock face. A semi-hexagonal bastion projects south, with blocked-up semicircular arched openings for cannon, now filled in. The farmyard is becoming a folk park.

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Somewhere close to Milltown, in Cork, there was once a castle of the Fitz-Gibbons. In later years Colonel Evans made it a well-planted improvement with a handsome canal. Back in Queen Elizabeth's reign, Maurice Fitz-Gibbon of Milltown slew John Mac John Fitz-Gerald of Kilbolane and fourteen of his followers, with the help of four of his sons. The killing came because Fitz-Gerald had instigated the Earl of Desmond to hang one of the Fitz-Gibbons.

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You're coming through Clonakilty now, the town in Cork where Donogh Duve was brought to die. Three men had been sent to Bandon for execution, since it was ordered that hangings take place in the towns nearest where the offences were committed. Micheal and Dan were detained in Bandon, but Donogh was sent on, strongly escorted. When the escort reached a cross-road adjoining the town, known then and still as Fac's Bridge, the local authorities had everything ready. People from the country and from the town had gathered to see one of the most notorious criminals of the day, and to see whether his reckless daring would cower as he faced death. He took his place on the drop. The rope was adjusted. He nodded and smiled to old friends he recognized in the crowd. The bolt was about to be drawn when he asked, as a last request, to say a few words. It was allowed. He stepped forward with a comic expression that provoked roars of merriment from those who had come to watch him die. "Good people," he said, "all I have to say is, that the best thing for you to light a pipe with is the faded stalk of a potato!" Then he turned with the same humorous leer to the executioner and told him to go on. His disregard for his doom might be explained by the iron collar he wore round his neck, with strong projecting hooks, so that when the drop fell the rope would be caught by them and prevented from pressing fatally on his jugular. The collar was made for him by a smith named Lane, from Ballinacurra. But it did not avail him. Hastings Moore, a brother of the murdered man, who had assisted in his capture at Geara, was watching every move from the foot of the scaffold. He perceived that the neckerchief was unusually large.

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The town of Clonakilty was the scene of a fierce episode in 1642. On the 18th of October, Lord Forbes arrived here with his regiment, having marched from Bandon with reinforcements. He left one Bandon company and two Scotch companies to secure the town while he went on to Rathbarry. Shortly after he departed, the Irish attacked the garrison. Robert Grove, captain of the Bandon company, advised a retreat of about four miles to the main body. The Scotch troops refused to go with him, and they were cut to pieces. Grove made good his retreat to an old Danish fort on the way to Ross, and there he defended himself until the rest of the forces came to his relief. Reinforced, the whole body fell upon the Irish and forced them into the island of Inchydoney. The tide was in, and upwards of 600 were drowned. Upon their return to Clonakilty, they found a great number of men, women, and children imprisoned in the market place, in order to be burned by the Irish as a bonfire for joy at their expected success. The wider war brought its own betrayals. The garrisons of the castles of Cloghleigh and Coole, who had surrendered upon a promise of quarter and safe convoy, were murdered or kept prisoners. Towards the end of that year, Lord Broghill and Captain Jephson were added to Lord Inchiquin as commissioners for the government of Munster by the lords justices, and were to have command in the army.

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In April 1691, Clonakilty was attacked by 500 Irish, but the garrison beat them off. The next day about 1500 Irish assaulted Iniskeen and burnt the whole village except one house. The garrison retired into that house and bravely defended it until relief came from Bandon.

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You are coming through Clonakilty, a post and market town twelve miles from Bandon and thirty-two from Cork. It was a borough town, incorporated in the 2nd year of King James I through the interest of the Earl of Cork. It sent members to the Irish parliament and was governed by a sovereign and burgesses, like Kinsale. At the breaking out of the civil war in 1641, the English settlers in Clonakilty fled en masse to Bandon, which was a walled town. Lord Forbes, a Scottish nobleman who had served with distinction under Gustavus Adolphus, marched to the relief of Clonakilty. He left two companies of Scotch troops and some Bandon militia there, and pressed on to Bath-Barry. The Irish rose in his absence, and cut off the Scotch regiments. The Bandon men made good their retreat to an old fort near Boss, where they maintained their ground till reinforced by Lord Forbes. The Irish retreated, and made for Inchidonny, in Clonakilty harbour, but the tide coming in, a number of them were drowned. On Lord Forbes's return to the town, he found some of the English settlers imprisoned in the market-house, who firmly believed they were to be burned alive, as a feu de joie for the victory of the Irish over the Scotch.

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Clonakilty Garda Síochána station is a detached former barracks, built about 1810. It was originally a three-storey building, put up to accommodate a military presence, occupying a commanding position overlooking the town. The front elevation runs nine bays across two storeys, with breakfront end bays and a five-bay single-storey arcaded loggia serving as the entrance. The design is classical, the projecting end bays and central arcade making an imposing front. The walls are roughcast rendered, with a rendered platband below the eaves and a plinth band at the base. The roof is hipped slate, with red brick chimneystacks and a rendered eaves course. Windows are square-headed with six-over-six pane timber sliding sashes throughout. The loggia entrance has arcaded round-headed openings, a limestone stepped approach, and a concrete platform. Inside the loggia, a round-headed door opens with double-leaf timber panelled doors and a fanlight. The building was burnt in 1921, during the Troubles, and rebuilt in 1926 as a two-storey Garda Síochána station.

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You are coming through Clonakilty, in Cork. In January 1774, a woman named Mary Dowe was indicted here for stealing two handkerchiefs valued at tenpence sterling. Her sentence was to be whipped at the tail of a cart, on three successive market days. The record calls her the unhappy creature, and says that theft was punished ferociously. Another woman, Catherine Lordane, was indicted for stealing a bundle of linen yarn worth elevenpence. She was not tried for two months. She was found not guilty, but kept in confinement until she had paid her fees. The record notes that if she had been guilty she would have been flogged. Being innocent, she was only imprisoned.

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Coming up along Clonakilty, in Cork. This town has deep ties to Sir Richard Cox, the future Lord Chancellor. His mother was the daughter of Walter Bird, a man who served three times as sovereign of Clonakilty and for a long time as its Recorder. She had been married before, to Captain Batten, but he was killed at the siege of Dungarvan. She did not long survive that loss. Through grief, she fell into consumption and died the following winter. After her death, Cox's uncle, John Bird, took charge of the boy and sent him to school in Clonakilty, to a man named Thomas Barry. There Cox made progress in classics, rhetoric, logic, and physics. He put his success in life down to honesty. In his own account, he said that the rise of his fortune sprang from a principle of honesty, and that from his infancy he had a great regard for religion, sincerity, and virtue. He told of owing a cob, which by driblets he had lost at the truck-table. Being dunned for it, he stole one from his uncle, but being checked by his principle, he restored it immediately, and resolved to take some lawful course to pay that debt and furnish himself with more money.

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As you come through Timoleague, the abbey here holds the remains of Bishop Owen MacEgan. In 1601, after the battle of Kinsale, MacEgan rallied Irish forces attacking Captain Taaffe's troops on the banks of the River Bandon. The battle was fiercely contested and the outcome doubtful for a long time, until the brave vicar was slain. After his death the Irish forces were disheartened and retreated. The Bishop's remains were borne off the field of battle by O'Sullivan. He was buried at Timoleague Abbey, and a small cross indented in the wall near the north-western angle of the cloister commemorates the exact spot where rest the remains of the illustrious Mac Egan.

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As you come through Timoleague, you're passing one of County Cork's grandest religious houses. The abbey was put up in 1372 by the MacCarthys and dedicated to St. Mologua, its name coming from ty-Mologua, the house of Mologua. It was the largest of the many religious houses in the county. The remains still standing include the nave, choir and south transept, along with a square tower 68 feet high added in 1518 by Edward Courcy, Bishop of Ross.

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As you come through Timoleague, you are passing a town that was once a place of some note. It sits between the castle and the abbey, under a hill that shelters it from west and northerly winds. In former times Spaniards came here in numbers and imported large quantities of wine. It is said there were no less than fourteen taverns in the town that sold sack. There is a regular street. One side was new-built for the accommodation of linen weavers by the late Lord Barrymore, but the design failed through the mismanagement of his lordship's undertaker. In the town are some good slate houses, a market-house, and a bleach-yard. It has four fairs in the year, but no regular market. The abbey, though not roofed, is a large building. It has a handsome square gothic tower, 70 feet high, a choir with an aisle formed by arcades on the south, and a square cloister with a platform in the middle. Several rooms are said to have been a chapel, a chapter room, and a refectory, besides an apartment for the guardian. Tombs of Irish families are here. MacCarty Reagh's lies in the midst of the choir. West of it is a broken monument of the Cullanes. On the right is a ruined tomb of the Lords Courcey. The O'Donovans and O'Hea were also buried here. At the dissolution, four and a half acres belonged to this house, then possessed by Lord Inchiquin and now by Lord Barrymore. Near the town is a well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, frequented on the 8th of September by numbers of the Irish, who imagine it to cure several maladies. Saint Mologa, according to Colgan, has his festival day on the 20th of January. He was the ancient patron of this place.

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Close to here stand the ruins of Timoleague Friary, a medieval Franciscan friary on the banks of the Argideen River, overlooking Courtmacsherry Bay. It was built on the site of an early Christian monastic site founded by Saint Molaga, who also gave the town its name. The remains date from around the turn of the fourteenth century. By the mid-seventeenth century it was an important ecclesiastical centre engaged in significant trade with Spain, when British forces burnt it down. It is the largest medieval ruin in West Cork and one of the few early Franciscan friaries in Ireland with substantial ruins still standing. The layout is claustral, built in the Early English Gothic style. It contains elements unusual for Franciscan architecture of the period, including wall passages and exterior access to its upper floor. The friary was altered in the early sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Several historical artefacts are associated with it, and during the Romantic era it was depicted in several notable artworks.

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Somewhere around here are the ruins of Abbeymahon Abbey, a medieval Cistercian house also known as the Abbey of St Mary de Fonte Vivo. Little is known about it, due to a dearth of documentary evidence, but it was a flourishing and wealthy abbey up until its suppression in the 16th century.

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As the road takes you through Courtmacsherry, we are near the Old Head of Kinsale, a promontory that juts out about six miles to the south-east. The name Kinsale comes from Ceann-saile, the head of the sea. On the Old Head stood an ancient encampment, and on its site stand the ruins of a De Courcy castle. Miles de Courcy, son of the celebrated John de Courcy, married a De Cogan and built a castle on the Old Head. Near Sandy Cove the Ordnance map marks a church in ruins, and the Reverend John H. Hopkins, Rector of Kinsale, described it. He said the church is built of unhewn stone and mortar made from burned shells. The building is oblong, measuring about thirty-five feet by twenty. It was entered by a low narrow door in the western gable, and lighted by slits like those in the staircase of an old castle, two of which remain. The eastern gable is surmounted by a rudely constructed circular arch and slightly bayed; the other is also bayed and surmounted by a flat stone. The ruin is known as the church of Courtmather. Kinsale is one of the oldest corporate towns in Ireland. The preamble of the charter, 7 of Edward III, says the town was surrounded by Irish enemies and English rebels, and that the burgesses had always obeyed the king's orders in repelling the same, who had often, by sea and land, assailed the town. The power of choosing a sovereign or mayor was granted by this charter, for their loyalty.

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The road is bringing you through Courtmacsherry, in Cork. In December 1796, a memorable gale drove vast heaps of cockles on shore here, stripped of their shells. They were a smooth-shelled kind that lived in deeper water and were seldom found except when storms threw them in. The fury of that tempest left them in a naked state, deprived of their shelly covering, piled along the strand.

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Courtmacsherry Castle is an unclassified castle within the grounds of a hotel. Smith in 1815 noted it as the seat of Robert Gookin, describing Court Mac Sherry as encompassed with walls and turrets. No visible trace of the structure remains.

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As you pass through Courtmacsherry, over near the Old Head of Kinsale stand the ruins of Courtaparteen Church, alongside the ruins of Ringrone Castle. Ringrone was built by Milo de Courcey, ancestor of the present Lord Kingsale, premier baron of Ireland, a title going back to 1181. King John chose de Courcey as his champion in a quarrel with Philip of France. His rival ran away without striking a blow, and de Courcey was adjudged the conqueror. As a reward for his gallantry he received the privilege of remaining covered in the presence of his sovereign, a privilege still preserved.

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Courtmacsherry is a place the road passes through or near. In 1726 a John Townesend was elected and chosen as a burgess of the Clonakilty corporation, and the record suggests he may have been John Townesend of Courtmacsherry, son of John of Skirtagh, who was born 1691, the third son of Bryan. The identification is not certain. He might instead have been John of Skirtagh himself, or John, born 1698, grandson of Cornelius Townesend, the eighth son of Colonel Townesend. The same year, at a court held for the borough on Tuesday, St. Luke's day, the day appointed by the charter for swearing a suffrain for the ensuing year, a letter was produced signed Andrew Crotty, signifying that the Lord of the Borough elected Richard Cox to be suffrain. The Lord did not send the letter, and Cox did not appear. David Barry was unanimously re-elected and sworn suffrain, and had the ensigns of authority delivered to him by the burgesses and deputy recorder.

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As the road brings you through Timoleague in Cork, this is a town with a Franciscan story. Edmund Courcy was a Franciscan transferred from the See of Clogher to Ross by a brief dated 26 September 1494. He ruled the diocese of Ross for 24 years. The obituary book of the Franciscans of Timoleague, recording his death on 10 March 1518, describes him as a special benefactor of their convent, both during his episcopate and at his death. He enriched the convent with a library, and built for its convenience an additional dormitory and an infirmary. He also built its steeple, and decorated the church with many precious ornaments. This Franciscan church continued for nearly 100 years as a special devotional resort of the people, until its fathers were dispersed, and the convent reduced to a heap of ruins in the reign of Elizabeth.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 162 · source

As you pass through Timoleague, this town holds the abbey Edmund de Courcey retired to in 1517 after resigning his see. With his nephew James, Lord Kinsale, he built the steeple, still standing, along with the dormitory, infirmary, and library, and gave plate and books. He is buried in a chapel of the abbey, now unroofed.

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The ivy-clad tower house at Castle Lower stands on the west bank of the Argideen River, near where it meets the Courtmacsherry estuary. Today only two storeys remain. A photograph from 1907 shows it as a four-storey tower with gables and chimney stacks. An explosion in the 1920s damaged the castle, and Cork County Council reduced its height in the 1930s. The north-east corner has collapsed. The ground floor has pointed-arch doorways in the east and south walls, the south door covered by a gun loop. A window transom now lying at the foot of the south wall bears an inscription on one face, "DB ET ER ME FECET," and on another, "1586 AUGUST 1." DB is David Barry and ER his wife Ellen Roche. The inscription probably marks a refurbishment. A similar one was cut on a window transom at Barryscourt Castle in east Cork.

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At the end of the James and Williamite war, Colonel O'Donovan was ordered to march his regiment to Cork harbour and embark. The order was dated the 12th of November, 1691, and signed Jo. Wanehope. He did not obey it. On the 4th of January, 1692, a permit signed B. Townsend was issued for Colonel O'Donovan to travel to Timoleague, to deliver himself a prisoner unto the High Sheriff, without molestation, he behaving himself as becometh. He was still alive in January, 1701.

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Somewhere around here at Burrin, pipes of wine were once cast ashore from a wreck, and a man called Donal claimed them as his right. In those days a wreck was esteemed, in the words of the source, "God's goods," so this was considered very fortunate, and Donal came to be known as Donal-na-pipi from the incident. He later obtained a commission as Captain of Infantry in 1608 in a regiment commanded by Colonel Valentine Brown, and he died in 1612. He had married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Roe Fitzgerald, and among their issue was a son Cormac, who predeceased him.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 176 · source

A holy well at Farrannagark in Cork, beside Burren Bridge. It sits inside a stone-built structure with a lintelled roof. The record finds no sign it is still in holy use. In 1842 the map showed a well of the same name 180 metres to the east.

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This is Coolmain Castle, a country house commenced in 1792 in Coolmain, Cork. It stands overlooking the sea. The house was built in several periods, its blocks and additions showing how architectural fashions changed between the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main block is a five-bay two-storey Georgian house with a central gablet. A two-bay two-storey wing with a pair of gables is attached to the north, alongside square-plan crenellated towers rising in three and four stages. There is a single-bay crenellated porch at the centre. The towers have rubble stone walls and crenellated parapets. Crenellated screen walls and a tower stand to the south-east, with related outbuildings on the site. The regular proportions of the Georgian house, the gabled wing with its pointed arch openings, and the crenellated towers give the building its character and diversity, set to make the most of its picturesque location.

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